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On Sep 23, 2014, at 3:55 AM, Henning Brauer <hb-nut at bsws.de> wrote: > We have upd(4) attaching to these devices now. Either nut needs a > driver getting status from upd (trivial, will show up in the > hw.sensors sysctl tree) or we need some way for nut still being able > to talk to the ups directly, without upd and nut interfering with each > other. While a upd(4) driver

Hello, sorry and puzzled to hear about that. My guess would be permissions - while nut-scanner remains `root` (if started as one) and sees everything, drivers default to dropping privileges and may not see the devfs nodes (not sure OTOH which paths are involved on OpenBSD). One experimental workaround can be adding `user=root` to `ups.conf` entry for the device. But properly - tame whichever