Re: [Nut-upsuser] initial configuration assistance
Hi Gregory, tis 2007-01-30 klockan 14:43 +0900 skrev Gregory Orange: Hi, I've browsed the archives back for a few months and nothing has jumped out at me as being helpful, but since there doesn't seem to be a search facility it's certainly possible I've missed what I'm looking for. Anyway, I wonder if someone can help me. I've very recently installed nut 2.0.4-r1 on a gentoo box and am in the initial stages of configuration and testing. Our APC Smart-UPS 3000 is connected with a 940-0024C serial cable, which seems to be a good one to use - I firstly removed the 940-1524C cable which happened to be dangling from the UPS. I've configured upsd.conf with [rack1ups] driver = apcsmart cable = 940-0024C port = auto desc = Rack 1 UPS and left most other files as default, except for following some parts of doco on initial setup. The port should be set to /dev/ttyS0 if you use the first com port. Then depending on the udev version the tty is owned by the tty group or the uucp group. Check by ls -al /dev/ttyS0. Add the nut user to the right group in /etc/group. This is more easy then trying to fix the udev rule. The problem: When I /etc/init.d/upsd start, I get this: Network UPS Tools upsd 2.0.4 Can't connect to UPS [rack1ups] (apcsmart-auto): No such file or directory Synchronizing giving up Try to start the driver first. /etc/init.d/upsdrv start Check that it is running and that it don't fail. Then start the deamon if it is ok. /etc/init.d/upsd start I'm running Gentoo ~X86 and use a homemade ebuild for nut-2.0.5 with some patches that i entered into the development trunk. Regards Kjell ___ Nut-upsuser mailing list Nut-upsuser@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/nut-upsuser
[Nut-upsuser] Searchable mailing list archive (was: initial configuration assistance)
Charles Lepple wrote: On 1/30/07, Gregory Orange [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've browsed the archives back for a few months and nothing has jumped out at me as being helpful, but since there doesn't seem to be a search facility it's certainly possible I've missed what I'm looking for. For future searches, you can use Google with 'site:lists.alioth.debian.org nut-upsdev OR nut-upsuser' and then your search string. Not pretty, but it works. Cool! In fact, with this information, you can easily make a customized NUT lists search engine with the following HTML snippet: form action=http://www.google.com/search; method=get input maxlength=2048 name=as_q size=25 type=text input name=as_oq type=hidden value=nut-upsuser nut-upsdev input name=domains value=lists.alioth.debian.org type=hidden input name=sitesearch value=lists.alioth.debian.org type=hidden input name=btnG value=Search NUT lists type=submit /form Arnaud, could you put this on the NUT homepage somewhere? E.g. at http://www.networkupstools.org/lists/ I tried putting this directly on the list homepages on Alioth, but the server deletes any custom forms. But it would be useful to have a search page on www.networkupstools.org, and then we can link to it from the list archives. -- Peter ___ Nut-upsuser mailing list Nut-upsuser@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/nut-upsuser
Re: [Nut-upsuser] initial configuration assistance
Arjen de Korte wrote: port = auto This won't work. You need to specify a serial port for this driver (see 'man 5 ups.conf' and 'man 8 apcsmart'). Only the 'newhidups' driver accepts 'auto' (anything actually), but that is an USB driver. Ah ok thanks - I won't switch between 'auto' and the serial port any more in my testing. I had just grabbed the idea to use auto from some examples floating about the web, but it's highly likely that they were using newhidups, which I won't be. The problem: When I /etc/init.d/upsd start, I get this: Network UPS Tools upsd 2.0.4 Can't connect to UPS [rack1ups] (apcsmart-ttyS0): No such file or directory Synchronizing giving up I would expect some lines showing that the driver is started, so I doubt that the driver is running. Are you sure that /etc/init.d/upsd is an init script and not a link to the upsd binary? What does the output of 'ps aux|grep ups' show when you've started this? From your tip I did check that - it is indeed a script but as you say, running it gave no reference to the driver starting. So I found /etc/init.d/upsdrv and went directly to /usr/sbin/upsdrvctl start which gave this output: Network UPS Tools - UPS driver controller 2.0.4 Network UPS Tools (version 2.0.4) - APC Smart protocol driver Driver version 1.99.8, command table version 2.0 Unable to detect an APC Smart protocol UPS on port /dev/ttyS0 Check the cabling, port name or model name and try again Driver failed to start (exit status=1) Charles: thank you for the Google tip - that will be most helpful. As for the port, it is indeed /dev/ttyS0. Kjell: User and group nut were auto-created by the install, and nut belongs to tty group too. Armed with this info, I'll get some serial port help onsite here and report any successes or more queries. Thank you all for your help so far. Greg. -- - - Gregory Orange Phone: +61 8 9387 7955 System AdministatorFax: +61 8 9387 6686 MetOcean Engineers Pty Ltd http://www.metoceanengineers.com System Administrators Guild of Australia http://www.sage-au.org.au - - ___ Nut-upsuser mailing list Nut-upsuser@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/nut-upsuser
