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On Dec 14, 2013, at 4:23 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: > Do you know if the problem with upsdrvctl being able to probe/connect to the > usb devices is the result of some default permission change in Linux in general. > It seems to me that since nut used to work right out-of-the-box, then all/most > distros must have had the default permissions on usb nodes set to 0666, where >

On 12/14/2013 02:06 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: > Charles, > > Setting uid:gid to root:nut on /dev/bus/usb/004/002 seemed to be the issue. > The question now become how to automate this process so that the user isn't > required to manually hunt down the usb dev and change gid to the nut gid? So > far, either manually setting the gid or hand-rolling the udev files to do the

...I'll look at what information I have available for my CyberPower ups and see if I can ID some parameters that are useful. We can then see if APC, Belkin, etc.. devices have that information as well. I know there are differences. My ups does not report an ATTRS{serial} on the device itself when udevadmin is called. It does on the parent device, but only the generic ATTRS{serial}=="0000:00:04.0" for bus 4. There is useful information though: [14:37 phoinix:/srv/http/htdocs/nut] # udevadm info --attribute-walk --name /dev/bus/usb/004/002 Udevadm info starts with the device specified by th...

I was dropping off junk at the waste transfer station and scarfed a UPS out of the pile of old TV's and VCR's. It was in good physical condition and as I expected, the battery was toast. A new RBC-2 battery restored it to working condition. Then I tried to get it to talk to some software. And I am having no luck. The unit is branded as a Nexxtech Model 6118507 650VA imported into