Nut upsuser - Feb 2006 - Problems starting upsd with newhidups

Hello,

I am having trouble getting upsd to start.  I am using the Debian NUT packages
version 2.0.3 (current in Debian/sid).  I am using the newhidups driver with
an APC Back-UPS BR 800.

The init.d script wasn't functioning, so I backtracked to running upsd
manually and I get:

foxstar:/etc/nut# upsd -u root
Network UPS Tools upsd 2.0.3
Can't connect to UPS [foxstarups] (newhidups-auto): No such file or
directory
Synchronizing..... <CTRL-C>

My ups.conf contains:

[foxstarups]
        driver = newhidups
        port = auto
        offdelay = 600
        desc = "foxstar UPS"

It seems that upsd is concatenating the driver and port fields with a hyphen
inbetween.  Adding "-DDD" does not produce any extra output.  Going
back one
step further and running the driver directly shows that it can connect to the
UPS, as long as I include the "-u root" option:

foxstar:/etc/nut# /lib/nut/newhidups -u root auto
Network UPS Tools: New USB/HID UPS driver 0.28 (2.0.3)

Detected a UPS: American Power Conversion/Back-UPS BR  800 FW:9.o2 .D USB FW:o2
Using subdriver: APC HID 0.8

Am I doing something wrong?  Is my upsd not configured properly?


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2006/2/24, John Gruenenfelder
<johng@as.arizona.edu>:
> Hello,
>
> I am having trouble getting upsd to start.  I am using the Debian NUT
packages
> version 2.0.3 (current in Debian/sid).  I am using the newhidups driver
with
> an APC Back-UPS BR 800.
>
> The init.d script wasn't functioning, so I backtracked to running upsd
> manually and I get:
>
> foxstar:/etc/nut# upsd -u root
> Network UPS Tools upsd 2.0.3
> Can't connect to UPS [foxstarups] (newhidups-auto): No such file or
directory
> Synchronizing..... <CTRL-C>
>
> My ups.conf contains:
>
> [foxstarups]
>         driver = newhidups
>         port = auto
>         offdelay = 600
>         desc = "foxstar UPS"
>
> It seems that upsd is concatenating the driver and port fields with a
hyphen
> inbetween.  Adding "-DDD" does not produce any extra output. 
Going back one
> step further and running the driver directly shows that it can connect to
the
> UPS, as long as I include the "-u root" option:
>
> foxstar:/etc/nut# /lib/nut/newhidups -u root auto
> Network UPS Tools: New USB/HID UPS driver 0.28 (2.0.3)
>
> Detected a UPS: American Power Conversion/Back-UPS BR  800 FW:9.o2 .D USB
FW:o2
> Using subdriver: APC HID 0.8
>
> Am I doing something wrong?  Is my upsd not configured properly?
>
I think you're facing a bug I've discovered yesterday, just after my
upload of 2.0.3, thanks to ubuntu: /var is now created upon each boot.

Check that for more info:
https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/nut/+bug/6679
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2006/01/msg00720.html

So I'll have to upload a -2 release...

Arnaud
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