[Nut-upsuser] upsd/upsc, LISTEN and hostname resolution in master/slave

Hi, I've been setting up a few Eatons 1500 USB in master/slave mode and run into what I'm thinking is a hostname resolution problem. Basically, to avoid hardcoding ips, I'd love to be able to add a LISTEN on the lan's ip which has hostname, let's say, server1.local . If I set up upsd.conf such

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Eaton 1500 USB constant disconnections

Arno, thanks for taking the time to write back and no worries about lag, we're all busy and I'm grateful there is a community to interact with to begin with. You're right - the problem went away once I actually configured nut. I guess I was too "cautious" and when I saw the errors I thought

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Is a timer a file?

Hi Arnaud, On Wed, 22 Mar 2017, Arnaud Quette wrote: The technique is very general and is to send SIGUSR1/SIGUSR2 to the upsd daemon.  SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 are events just like ONBATT and ONLINE. The patch runs successfully on my opensuse 13.2 box, and solves my problem. In

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Eaton 1500 USB constant disconnections

2017-03-11 4:55 GMT+01:00 Spike : > Hi, > Hi Spike, sorry for the lag in answering, I was collecting the needed information. I have a eaton 1500 that connects to an Ubuntu Xenial box via USB. The UPS > works, however exactly *ever 5 minutes* it disconnects and reconnects and I