Re: [Nut-upsuser] ups question from your web site

2008-10-16 Thread Peter Selinger
-- From: Peter Selinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2008 11:05 PM To: nspag [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: NUT user list nut-upsuser@lists.alioth.debian.org Subject: Re: ups question from your web site Dear Nick, thanks for writing. I no longer

Re: [Nut-upsuser] ups question from your web site

2008-10-15 Thread Peter Selinger
Dear Nick, thanks for writing. I no longer work on development of UPS drivers; you will probably get a more up-to-date answer from the nut-upsuser mailing list (cc'd). I don't know if the Back-UPS 550 has similar commands to the Back-UPS ES 650. If it has a USB connection, then the answer is

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Nut newhidups USB interface

2008-03-08 Thread Peter Selinger
Hi Shane, please try the instructions at http://www.mathstat.dal.ca/~selinger/ups/backups.html (with appropriate modifications for FreeBSD). If you can't get it to work, please get help from the nut-upsuser mailing list (cc'd above), as I am no longer actively involved in NUT development.

Re: [Nut-upsuser] NUT ups issue

2007-10-23 Thread Peter Selinger
Hi Drew, I no longer work on NUT, but the folks at the nut-upsuser mailing list are extremely helpful. See http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/nut-upsuser The 2.0.3 release is *way* out of date; the current stable NUT release is 2.2.0. It contains many improvements, particularly to

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Nut 2.2.0 also broke Belkin 1200 Universal UPS'

2007-08-26 Thread Peter Selinger
Arjen de Korte wrote: Justin Piszcz wrote: Bus 003 Device 002: ID 050d:1100 Belkin Components # /lib/nut/usbhid-ups -a belkin Network UPS Tools: 0.28 USB communication driver 0.28 - core 0.30 (2.2.0-) No matching HID UPS found Hmm best to stick with 2.0.4. No. Just run

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Nut 2.2.0 also broke Belkin 1200 Universal UPS'

2007-08-26 Thread Peter Selinger
Arjen de Korte wrote: Bus 003 Device 002: ID 050d:1100 Belkin Components # /lib/nut/usbhid-ups -a belkin Network UPS Tools: 0.28 USB communication driver 0.28 - core 0.30 (2.2.0-) No matching HID UPS found Hmm best to stick with 2.0.4. No. Just run the driver in

Re: [Nut-upsuser] [Nut-upsdev] USB support for Sweex 1000 VA UPS (was: Help with

2007-05-24 Thread Peter Selinger
Alexander I. Gordeev wrote: On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 01:18:26AM -0300, Peter Selinger wrote: I'll defer to Alexander Gordeev; he has worked extensively on the megatec_usb driver, which is solving a somewhat similar problem, although the protocol is different. The UPS shutdown 30

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Belkin F6C1100-UNV

2007-05-22 Thread Peter Selinger
Alexander, I think we are talking to two different Davids here. The previous poster, David Mohr, was describing how some models of the Belkin -UNV series will only work with the megatec(_usb) drivers. He just didn't mention which models. This is starting to be confusing. -- Peter Alexander I.

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Belkin F6C1100-UNV

2007-05-22 Thread Peter Selinger
Sorry guys, my message (and various replies) went off-list by mistake. I am putting this back on the mailing list. Eric S. Raymond wrote: Peter Selinger [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Alexander and Eric, have you confirmed that the F6C1200-UNV works with the megatec_usb driver? Looking back

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Belkin F6C1100-UNV

2007-05-22 Thread Peter Selinger
Eric S. Raymond wrote: Peter Selinger [EMAIL PROTECTED]: One potential problem is that you are passing the parameters vendorid=0665 and subdriver=agiler when you start the driver manually, but you are passing no such parameters to upsdrvctl. You can put them into your ups.conf

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Belkin F6C1100-UNV

2007-05-22 Thread Peter Selinger
I am in favor of this. I have wanted this for some time, but was not sure how best to do it. We also have to have a way to suppress the revision-stamp mechanism in an actual distribution. In other words, SVN builds should have a version number such as 2.1.0-r910, whereas builds from released

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Belkin F6C1100-UNV

2007-05-21 Thread Peter Selinger
David Mohr wrote: Hi, it'd be great if you could update the documentation on the website that some models of the Belkin -UNV series will only work with the megatec(_usb) drivers. Which models, specifically? You mention the F6C1100-UNV in the subject line, but we previously had reports that

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Powerware Prestige 1000VA

2007-05-20 Thread Peter Selinger
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I do have gdlib-config installed, and that made me ignore the config option, because: What is the output of the following on your system? #gdlib-config --version --ldflags --includes 2.0.33 -L/usr/lib -I/usr/include It doesn't include support for libXpm.

Re: [Nut-upsuser] writing variables

2007-05-18 Thread Peter Selinger
Russ Romano wrote: Can anyone give me insight into upsrw? I have a cyberpower PR2200 UPS (running an experimental version of the powerpanel driver hot off the presses by Arjen (thanks Arjen!!)). When I try to run upsrw -s xyz=abc to set any available variable, I get Set variable

Re: [Nut-upsuser] newhidups/APC: load always 0?

2007-05-07 Thread Peter Selinger
Don't know. You could run the driver with -DD to see the raw data reported by the UPS. -- Peter Tom Laermans wrote: 'lo, UPS model: APC Back-UPS BR 800 (supplied by Dell) My USB connection: Bus 001 Device 002: ID 051d:0002 American Power Conversion Back-UPS Pro 500/1000/1500 #

[Nut-upsuser] Re: Sweex UPS 500VA and NUT problem

2007-04-25 Thread Peter Selinger
Arjan, I am forwarding your email to the nut-upsuser mailing list. I am not an expert on the Powermust driver; hopefully somebody on the mailing list will be able to help you! -- Peter Arjan DJ wrote: Dear Peter, Some days ago I bought a Sweex UPS (500VA) and now I have set up NUT (using

Re: [Nut-upsuser] USB problem as user

2007-04-23 Thread Peter Selinger
Czuczy Gergely wrote: On Sat, 21 Apr 2007 21:56:53 -0300 (ADT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Selinger) wrote: In this case, I recommend that you do some testing and figure out yourself what the problem is. The debug output that you sent indicates that newhidups was unable to find

Re: [Nut-upsuser] newhidups fails only at boot

2007-04-16 Thread Peter Selinger
Could it be a permissions problem? Perhaps the USB devices are not yet owned by the correct user during boot? -- Peter Jim Osborn wrote: I can start the driver successfully manually, after the machine is up and running, but at boot time, it can't find my UPS. My init script makes sure that

Re: [Nut-upsuser] APC 1500 USB problem

2007-04-12 Thread Peter Selinger
A couple of suggestions. First, please read the man page of newhidups, particularly the section on how to configure multiple USB ups's. (IMPLEMENTATION). Newhidups does not use /dev/usb/hiddev*, and the port values you have given will be ignored in any case. Second, please follow the

Re: [Nut-upsuser] nut upset after Oops

2007-03-06 Thread Peter Selinger
Udo van den Heuvel wrote: Hello, When my kernel oopses (not ups/nut related) nut is somewhat upset and keeps complaining that power is gone, and restored, etc, etc, etc. How can I fix this? Please start by providing some information. What NUT version are you using, what driver? What

Re: [Nut-upsuser] make errors on solaris express dev 02/07

2007-03-06 Thread Peter Selinger
How I love svn blame! 571 selinger-guest if ( test ${ac_cv_func_connect} = no ); then 2aquette AC_CHECK_LIB(nsl, printf, [ 2aquette NETLIBS=-lnsl 2aquette ], [], []) 2aquette 2aquette AC_CHECK_LIB(socket, printf, [

Re: [Nut-upsuser] nut suddenly stopped working...

2007-03-05 Thread Peter Selinger
A.Lizard wrote: As I said earlier, I got it working using the -u root option. I'm running on the Debian distribution. Upon upsmon -c fsd , it shuts down the workstation, but NOT the UPS. In order to shut down both, I first tried Peter Selinger's shutdown patch for init.d halt :

Re: [Nut-upsuser] nut suddenly stopped working...

2007-02-28 Thread Peter Selinger
That is great news! -- Peter A.Lizard wrote: At 12:41 PM 2/27/07, you wrote: It now works - with minor issues. ___ Nut-upsuser mailing list Nut-upsuser@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/nut-upsuser

Re: [Nut-upsuser] nut suddenly stopped working...

2007-02-27 Thread Peter Selinger
A.Lizard wrote: This is also expected, since it sounds like you still have the driver running with -u root. I haven't been able to get it to run any other way - newhidups outputs (non-root and root) below. Right. The fact that it works when both the driver and upsd are passed -u root

Re: [Nut-upsuser] nut suddenly stopped working...

2007-02-23 Thread Peter Selinger
Back to square one. Is there any other process running that might already be attached to that device? -- Peter A.Lizard wrote: At 01:01 PM 2/23/07, you wrote: I tried the procedure - no change. terrarium:/usr/lib/hal# /lib/nut/newhidups -DDD -a belkin-ups Network UPS Tools: 0.28 USB

Re: [Nut-upsuser] nut suddenly stopped working...

2007-02-22 Thread Peter Selinger
This is perhaps a permissions problem. You need to give newhidups the -u root option, or else it will drop root privileges and probably not be able to open the device. Also, the newhidups driver has no start argument. Try this: kill all running drivers, and stop upsd and upsmon. Then:

Re: [Nut-upsuser] multiple machines

2007-02-20 Thread Peter Selinger
Simpson, Kenneth wrote: Hi - I have 5 Linux servers connected to 1 SmartUPS 2200 VA. The software from APC for Linux requires a Windows machine be present on the network as a server in order to manage the Linux machines. This is a show stopper for us since we don't have access to any

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Shutdown problem with Geek Squad GS1285U

2007-02-19 Thread Peter Selinger
Hi Gary, I am no good at reading kernel logs; these are Greek to me. The normal sequence is that upsd, upsmon, and the driver are all stopped. Then 'upsdrvctl shutdown' is called as a standalone program at the very end to turn off the power. (Neither a daemon nor a monitor are required at that

Re: [Nut-upsuser] upsd looking at wrong filename for socket?

2007-02-16 Thread Peter Selinger
You are using upsd and upsdrvctl 2.0.4 together with tripplite_usb 2.0.5. These versions will not work together, since the socket format has changed. Use everything from 2.0.5, and you should be fine I hope. -- Peter Forest Bond - Logic Supply wrote: On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 09:51:28PM

Re: Fw: [Nut-upsuser] Fwd: NUT on FreeBSD

2007-02-12 Thread Peter Selinger
Herman J van der Merwe wrote: Earlier, I wrote .. 3. What still remains a mystery to me is why no *.conf.sample files are created in the /path/to/my/nutinstallation/etc directory. OK, my fault ... trying to work at 1h00 is not the best time to find the hidden make install-conf line !!

Re: [Nut-upsuser] belkin ups

2007-02-08 Thread Peter Selinger
Upgrade to NUT 2.0.5? -- Peter Marc Collin wrote: hi my girldfriend have a belkin ups and get often this message USBDEVFS_CONTROL failed cmd newhidups rqt 161 rq 1 len 8 ret -71 ups.conf [myups] driver = newhidups port = /dev/hiddev0 desc = Local UPS

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Shutdown problem with Geek Squad GS1285U

2007-02-08 Thread Peter Selinger
) echo Error: argument '$1' not supported 2 exit 3 ;; stop) do_stop ;; *) echo Usage: $0 start|stop 2 exit 3 ;; esac : [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ Peter Selinger wrote: I am not sure why you created a file S89ups-shutdown. You

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Additional server eralier shutdown condition

2007-02-04 Thread Peter Selinger
Vladimir, as Charles already pointed out, you can do what you want by writing a few lines of shell script and arranging for the script to be called when the UPS goes on battery. # shut down when battery charge goes below $minlevel minlevel=30 # check every $interval seconds interval=5 while

[Nut-upsuser] Searchable mailing list archive (was: initial configuration assistance)

2007-01-30 Thread Peter Selinger
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.

Re: [Nut-upsuser] no longer stale when disconnected with 2.0.5

2007-01-29 Thread Peter Selinger
Hi Arjen, yes, you are right. The calls to dstate_dataok() in usbhid_ups.c:hid_ups_walk() are somewhat random. I am worried about this: if ( (retcode == -EPERM) || (retcode == -EPIPE) || (retcode == -ENODEV) || (retcode == -EACCES) || (retcode == -EIO) ||

Re: [Nut-upsuser] [UPS on Serial vs. USB] USB slow to update,

2007-01-27 Thread Peter Selinger
If you are using newhidups/usbhid-ups, the option -x pollfreq=value can be used to set the polling frequency (or put pollfreq=value into ups.conf). The default is 30 seconds. -- Peter Justin Piszcz wrote: When I disconnect my UPS from the wall, I have to wait 15-30 seconds before the USB

Re: [Nut-upsuser] no longer stale when disconnected with 2.0.5

2007-01-27 Thread Peter Selinger
If I understood Markus correctly, the problem is not that the data goes stale (it should do that when disconnecting the UPS communications line), but that it goes unstale immediately afterwards (even when the UPS is still disconnected). This shouldn't really happen. Maybe some debugging is

Re: [Nut-upsuser] no longer stale when disconnected with 2.0.5

2007-01-27 Thread Peter Selinger
Yes, but he said 2.0.5 in the subject line. -- Peter Arjen de Korte wrote: Peter Selinger wrote: If I understood Markus correctly, the problem is not that the data goes stale (it should do that when disconnecting the UPS communications line), but that it goes unstale immediately

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Ablerex 625L USB version

2007-01-27 Thread Peter Selinger
Collection, data=none Item(Main ): End Collection, data=none @@@ At 15:06 26/01/2007, Peter Selinger wrote: Jon, there were some threads in December on the nut-upsdev list, with subjects such as megatec over USB. Andrey Lelikov had written a patch for a SVEN

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Ablerex 625L USB version

2007-01-27 Thread Peter Selinger
something in the system that expects these values? Regards Jon At 17:20 28/01/2007, Peter Selinger wrote: Hi Jon, I can't figure out which version of NUT you are running, because you have pruned that information from your output. Also, which patches, if any, have you applied? What you

Re: [Nut-upsuser] newhidups output for Geek Squad GS1285U

2007-01-26 Thread Peter Selinger
Hi Gary, yes, this looks good. Your device is apparently identical, or very similar, to the Cyber Power AE550, which is supported by newhidups. You should be able to run the driver without the -DD and follow the rest of the installation instructions. -- Peter Gary Redden wrote: This took a

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Nut with Powercom iCute ICT-530U (USB)

2007-01-22 Thread Peter Selinger
the project with special options to bulid USB drivers and have usbtools installed already on my system, is this correct? Dominik Goraczkowski P.S. I've tried to set all options to sent this message encoded correctly this time. Peter Selinger napisa?(a): Hi Dominik, no, I don't

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Install problem Geek Squad UPS

2007-01-19 Thread Peter Selinger
From the file INSTALL, step 1: 1. Configure the source tree for your system. Add the --with-user switch to set the user name that you created above. ./configure --with-user=nut If you need any other switches for configure, add them here. For example: * to build and

Re: [Fwd: Re: [Nut-upsuser] Install problem Geek Squad UPS]

2007-01-19 Thread Peter Selinger
. ./configure --with-user=nut If you alter paths with additional switches, be sure to use those new paths while reading the rest of the steps. *** Reference: docs/configure.txt --- Peter Selinger

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Nut with Powercom iCute ICT-530U (USB)

2007-01-18 Thread Peter Selinger
Hi Dominik, no, I don't think I have seen this device before. What is its USB manufacturer and product ID (lsusb or usbview should show this, as does the newhidups driver). If it is a HID device, then it should not be very difficult to support it in NUT, if it isn't already compatible. Try

Re: [Nut-upsuser] APC Back-UPS XS 1200 - permission denied

2007-01-18 Thread Peter Selinger
If you run newhidups with -u root, then you have to run upsd -u root as well. If you run newhidups without -u root, then it runs as the user specified by the ./configure --with-user option, or by the ups.conf user option (i.e. upsd in your case). It looks like crw-r--r-- 1 upsd root 189, 520

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Geek Squad UPS Systems

2007-01-17 Thread Peter Selinger
Dear Gary, NUT 2.0.3 is an ancient version. CPS support was added to newhidups much later. -- Peter P.S. please keep list traffic on the mailing list. Thanks! Gary Redden wrote: You wrote the following on the NUT-upsuser mailing list To check if your device's USB interface is supported,

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Geek Squad UPS Systems

2007-01-17 Thread Peter Selinger
Doug Reynolds wrote: Peter Selinger wrote: I wanted to mention that some of Cyberpower UPS use a USB to Serial bridge; I am not sure that the GS upses implement this method or not. If it has a serial port, try using the new 'powerpanel' driver (which I believe is in the new 2.0.5-pre2

Re: [Nut-upsuser] NOTIFYCMD not running

2007-01-17 Thread Peter Selinger
Michelle Dupuis wrote: I changed the line to: NOTIFYCMD logger 'upsmon: test running notify command' I wouldn't assume that NUT's configuration file parser interprets these quotes and spaces correctly. Have you checked that it is not calling logger ('upsmon:) (test) (running) (notify)

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Client shutdown options?..

2007-01-15 Thread Peter Selinger
There is a FAQ entry on this. But the FAQ is so hard to find (and lacks a table of contents or an index), so probably nobody ever looks at it. I know I don't. Does anyone feel like grouping the FAQ into easy-to-lookup categories? -- Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you looked at

Re: [Nut-upsuser] APC Question...

2007-01-12 Thread Peter Selinger
Hi Richard, This is bizarre. Using -DD, you should get more output between debug level is '2' and No appropriate HID device found. You should at least get something like: debug level is '2' Checking device (/) (005/001) - VendorID: - ProductID: - Manufacturer: Linux

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Client-only Make option?...

2007-01-12 Thread Peter Selinger
This question has a clear answer: no. There is no such Make/Config option. However, why not just do the following? ./configure [options] cd clients make upsmon upsc You can't use make install with this method. But if you have to, you could install these two binaries by hand: cp upsmon

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Tripp Lite OMNI1000LCD UPS (USB)

2007-01-10 Thread Peter Selinger
Paul Cooley wrote: Hello NUT-UPSUSERS, I would just like to try and help other and indicate that I was able to use the development trunk and get the Tripp Lite OMNI1000LCD UPS (USB) working with the newhidups drivers on Gentoo Linux. The one that is currently available at many local

Re: [Nut-upsuser] hidups can't find device

2007-01-05 Thread Peter Selinger
Please upgrade to NUT 2.0.5-pre2. APC support was much improved since 2.0.4. Also, try these instructions: http://www.mathstat.dal.ca/~selinger/ups/backups.html If it still doesn't work, please write to the list again with more specific information. -- Peter Ernest Aigner wrote: Hello,

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Re: Newpoint 200897 UPS

2006-12-30 Thread Peter Selinger
Daniel Gimpelevich wrote: On Sat, 30 Dec 2006 15:15:45 -0400, Peter Selinger wrote: Hi Daniel, we have seen device 0d9f/0001 before (possibly under a different name, but this is common), and as far as I remember we could not get it to work. See the thread named Gentoo Ultra USB UPS

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Help with nut 2.0.4, MGE Ellipse 1000 and FreeBSD

2006-12-29 Thread Peter Selinger
Arjen de Korte wrote: Miwa Forever wrote: As for changing MAXAGE directive - with values 60 and greater ups become available from pc, at least i can see it's state with upsc. But in /var/log/messages we can see next: Dec 29 17:13:37 zork3 upsd[14370]: UPS [MGE-Ellipse] data is no

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Help with nut 2.0.4, MGE Ellipse 1000 and FreeBSD

2006-12-28 Thread Peter Selinger
Miwa Forever wrote: 2006/12/28, Peter Selinger [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Miwa Forever wrote: Hello. So as my english is not so good, i'll try to write my story in bash commands :o) [EMAIL PROTECTED] uname -mrs FreeBSD 5.5-STABLE i386 [EMAIL PROTECTED] su [EMAIL

Re: [Nut-upsuser] right problem with ups belkin (model who work with

2006-12-26 Thread Peter Selinger
Hi Marc, the answer to your question is contained in the file INSTALL, distributed with NUT, section 6 Set ownership data and permissions on your serial or USB ports that go to your UPS hardware. Quote: The setup for USB ports is slightly more complicated. Device files for USB devices,

Re: [Nut-upsuser] howto setup BNT-1500AP on gentoo

2006-12-13 Thread Peter Selinger
Did you set correct permissions on /dev/tts/0? If that device is owned by root, then your driver cannot write to or read from it. -- Peter Vitaly Oborsky wrote: Good afternoon. I try to put nut on gentoo. Has executed installation by a standard command emerge nut. All has passed successfully.

Re: [Nut-upsuser] F6C1500-TW-RK

2006-12-08 Thread Peter Selinger
HID v1.11 Device [Belkin Belkin UPS] on usb1:2.0 - jamie On Dec 8, 2006, at 4:22 PM, Peter Selinger wrote: Jamie Fiedler wrote: is there a way to override the productid (like -x productid=3D1234) when using newhidups? Hi Jamie, I like simple yes/no questions! The answer is yes

Re: [Nut-upsuser] cyberpower 685avr problems with FC5

2006-12-01 Thread Peter Selinger
CyberPower support was added to newhidups after release 2.0.3 (a very old release). You should use NUT 2.0.4, or even better: the newest development snapshot from SVN (http://www.networkupstools.org/source.html) -- Peter henri wrote: i can't seem to get newhidups to detect my UPS.. i'm

Re: [Nut-upsuser] hidups unhandled events on Linux/amd64

2006-11-30 Thread Peter Selinger
Hi Marek, you should use newhidups, not hidups. -- Peter Marek Szuba wrote: Hello, I have encountered problems trying to set up nut to work with APC BackUps Pro CS connected over USB to an AMD64 machine running Debian. While apcupsd works fine with that device, whenever I start upsd I

Re: [Nut-upsuser] using nut to monitor SNMP UPS unit

2006-11-28 Thread Peter Selinger
Hi Tim, if you are using NUT 2.0.4, then you should look at the instructions in the file INSTALL. Step 2 is the following: 2. Build the programs. make Optionaly, you can also build the USB drivers (requires libusb) using: make usb The same goes for the SNMP driver

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Spurious messages on start

2006-11-16 Thread Peter Selinger
Arjen de Korte wrote: I guess the problem is that Synchronizing... step. Indeed. Either the driver needs more time to dump all the data than is allowed for in upsd or it could also be that the first connection to the driver always fails. Since we first declare a driver stale before

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Re: FreeBSD 6.1, MGE Ellipse ASR600USBS,

2006-11-16 Thread Peter Selinger
Eric Masson wrote: Arjen de Korte a =E9crit : Hello Arjen, This is a different problem, your driver is not answering at all and it looks like the dumpall command is not processed. Upgrading to the lates= t development version would be a good idea now, since a few things have

Re: [Nut-upsuser] FreeBSD 6.1, MGE Ellipse ASR600USBS, newhidups upsd

2006-11-16 Thread Peter Selinger
Your problem may be related to the way upsd and upsdrvctl interact. There are several ways to start the driver: (1) newhidups [options] auto (2) newhidups [options] -a myprofile (3) upsdrvctl start myprofile where myprofile is the name of a profile defined in ups.conf. Except for testing

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Re: FreeBSD 6.1, MGE Ellipse ASR600USBS,

2006-11-16 Thread Peter Selinger
upsd installed from an older version). -- Peter Eric Masson wrote: Peter Selinger a =E9crit : Hello Peter, Your problem may be related to the way upsd and upsdrvctl interact. There are several ways to start the driver: =20 (1) newhidups [options] auto (2) newhidups [options

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Tripp Lite OMNI900LCD

2006-11-15 Thread Peter Selinger
Hi Bryan, thanks for your report. I am not sure what issue you are referring to. All the output you posted appears to be normal. Did the driver give you any particular problems? -- Peter Bryan Bond wrote: I am having an issue running NUT and using an TrippLite OMNI900LCD. When I run

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Spurious messages on start

2006-11-15 Thread Peter Selinger
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Pedro_C=F4rte-Real?= wrote: /etc/nut/upsd.conf is world readable /etc/nut/upsd.users is world readable That is probably a really bad idea, since /usr/etc/upsd.users contains passwords that would allow any user to shut down your machine. -- Peter

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Spurious messages on start

2006-11-13 Thread Peter Selinger
To answer that question, we would have to see the script. This is not the Ubuntu/Debian mailing list, so what's standard to them may not be standard to us. -- Peter =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Pedro_C=F4rte-Real?= wrote: On 11/13/06, Peter Selinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can only guess. Perhaps you

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Spurious messages on start

2006-11-13 Thread Peter Selinger
for communication. In other words, it is intended to be started as: upsd and not upsd If upsd is started in the latter way, then upsmon could be started too soon. -- Peter =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Pedro_C=F4rte-Real?= wrote: On 11/13/06, Peter Selinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To answer that question

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Spurious messages on start

2006-11-12 Thread Peter Selinger
I can only guess. Perhaps you are starting the components in the wrong order? You have to start: First the driver (upsdrvctl). Second upsd. Third upsmon. -- Peter =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Pedro_C=F4rte-Real?= wrote: On 11/12/06, Peter Selinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try an analogous setting

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Segmentation fault

2006-11-11 Thread Peter Selinger
Yes, this has been fixed some time ago in the SVN version. -- Peter Magnus Johansson wrote: Hi! I'm running NUT 2.0.4 and occasionally I get a segfault when starting newhidups and if I don't get a segfault when starting newhidups the process starts eating away at my memory. I sat down

Re: AW: [Nut-upsuser] Re: [Nut-upsdev] megatec driver and

2006-11-02 Thread Peter Selinger
Philipp -Urspr=FCngliche Nachricht- Von: nut-upsuser-bounces+philipp.leusmann=3Drwth- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:nut-upsuser- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Peter Selinger Gesendet: Donnerstag, 2. November 2006 03:54 An: Carlos Rodrigues Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; nut- [EMAIL

[Nut-upsuser] Re: [Nut-upsdev] megatec driver and usb-to-serial converters

2006-11-01 Thread Peter Selinger
Hi Carlos, as far as I know, there is a standard serial over USB interface. I think the USB specification discourages such interfaces. All the serial over USB devices that I have seen have used a manufacturer-specific hack. So connecting to a USB device should not usually be as simple as

Re: AW: AW: [Nut-upsuser] Belkin F6H650 on USB port

2006-10-20 Thread Peter Selinger
don't know about. I am not very hopeful about being able to guess it. -- Peter -Urspr=FCngliche Nachricht- Von: Peter Selinger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Donnerstag, 19. Oktober 2006 19:18 An: Philipp Leusmann Cc: Nut-upsuser@lists.alioth.debian.org Betreff: Re: AW: [Nut

Re: [Nut-upsuser] NUT with APC RS 500 in Debian

2006-10-20 Thread Peter Selinger
Dear Gabriel, we would need some information to be able to help you, for example: * NUT version * operating system type and version * what driver were you using * what did you do * what error messages did you get? -- Peter Gabriel =?iso-8859-1?q?Fern=E1ndez?= wrote: I have not been able to

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Belkin F6H650 on USB port

2006-10-19 Thread Peter Selinger
You should first get a current version of NUT. Get release 2.0.4 or later, and preferably the Development version (see http://www.networkupstools.org/source.html - Develoment Tree). The driver to use is newhidups. -- Peter Philipp Leusmann wrote: Hi, is there a way to use my Belkin F6H650

Re: AW: [Nut-upsuser] Belkin F6H650 on USB port

2006-10-19 Thread Peter Selinger
: Peter Selinger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Donnerstag, 19. Oktober 2006 14:52 An: Philipp Leusmann Cc: nut-upsuser@lists.alioth.debian.org Betreff: Re: [Nut-upsuser] Belkin F6H650 on USB port You should first get a current version of NUT. Get release 2.0.4 or later

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Problems with newhidups and Smart-UPS 750

2006-10-16 Thread Peter Selinger
Strange. Is the problem reproducible? I have never seen it before. You might try the Development version of NUT from SVN (see http://www.networkupstools.org/source.html under Development tree). There has been quite a lot of work on the newhidups driver since 2.0.4. -- Peter Jan Zuchhold

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Ellipse 750 USBS auto shutdown and NUT.

2006-09-28 Thread Peter Selinger
=?iso-8859-1?Q?Fr=E9d=E9ric_POTTER?= wrote: Thanks jimmy for the hints, but I'm afraid the description of the problem I have was not clear. The problem I have is NOT a software configuration issue of NUT. The problem I have is that the UPS, when reaching battey.charge.low SHUTS DOWN

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Ablerex 625L USB version

2006-09-24 Thread Peter Selinger
at least one of the values would dropped to a negative value. What should I do next? Thanks. On Sat, 23 Sep 2006 16:06:37 -0300 (ADT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Selinger) wrote: The patch I just sent may not work; please try this one instead. -- Peter

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Ablerex 625L USB version

2006-09-22 Thread Peter Selinger
That device is not currently supported (we have never seen it before). It looks like a HID device, so it should be possible to write a subdriver for it, see docs/hid-subdrivers.txt. However, the data returned by the device looks strange; all the values are 0. I am not sure if this will work

Re: [Nut-upsuser] BlueWalker Powerwalker VI Line-Interactive UPS

2006-09-20 Thread Peter Selinger
Michael Helmling wrote: Excellent, it works with megatec and /dev/ttyS0. Thank you very much! Someone could add that to the hardware database. Please let me know if I can provide you with any information that might help to get the USB interface working, too. To get the USB interface

Re: [Nut-upsuser] newhidups, udev, usb, and frustration

2006-09-17 Thread Peter Selinger
Denis Hainsworth wrote: holy crap. just rpm'd the hotplug stuff for fc3. added an appropriate line to usb.usermap and a script that changes permissions and group and it just worked. Excellent. I have added your device F6C550-AVR (050d/0551) to our standard hotplug scripts in SVN as well.

Re: [Nut-upsuser] newhidups usb interface claiming warning

2006-09-17 Thread Peter Selinger
Denis Hainsworth wrote: usb 1-1: usbfs: process 32652 (newhidups) did not claim interface 0 before use so I found two places where supposedly you guys have added code to address the above issue I am having. Maybe you can tell us what two places you are talking about? -- Peter As far

Re: [Nut-upsuser] newhidups usb interface claiming warning

2006-09-17 Thread Peter Selinger
Denis Hainsworth wrote: On Sun, Sep 17, 2006 at 11:54:32AM -0300, Peter Selinger wrote: Denis Hainsworth wrote: usb 1-1: usbfs: process 32652 (newhidups) did not claim interface 0 before use so I found two places where supposedly you guys have added code to address

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Shutdown after 5 minutes?

2006-09-15 Thread Peter Selinger
After what's been said here, and the data that Rob sent, it seems that the UPSs are faulty; I cannot think of any reason why they should yank the power after 5 minutes, without any warning sign, and with brand new batteries. Even stranger that it still does this when the power is interrupted only

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Build 2.0.4, usb.h missing.

2006-09-12 Thread Peter Selinger
Hi Magnus, I didn't understand your compiler's error message (they were not in English). However, it seems that you need to install libusb, version 0.1.8 or later, before compiling nut. I wrote some instructions for setting up NUT with the APC Back-UPS at:

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Shutdown after 5 minutes?

2006-09-10 Thread Peter Selinger
Rob wrote: I would try the following: plug your computer into a wall outlet, plug a desk lamp into the UPS. First, start the driver and upsd (but not upsmon). Monitor the ups variables with upsc. Pull the power, wait 5 minutes or more, see what happens. Are there changes to ups.status?

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Shutdown after 5 minutes?

2006-09-10 Thread Peter Selinger
Rob wrote: While plugged into the wall: battery.charge: 100.0 battery.runtime: 64:41 driver.name: cpsups driver.parameter.port: /dev/ttyS2 driver.version: 2.0.4 driver.version.internal: .04 input.frequency: 60 input.voltage: 122 output.voltage: 122 ups.load: 9 ups.mfr:

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Tripp Lite OMNI900LCD

2006-09-08 Thread Peter Selinger
Charles Lepple wrote: On 9/8/06, Hans Fugal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a Tripp Lite OMNI900LCD. ... I can't get newhidups to recognize it at all. Support for newer Tripp-Lite USB/HID models is still in the development tree (the trunk in SVN). Instructions for grabbing it via

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Tripp Lite OMNI900LCD

2006-09-08 Thread Peter Selinger
OK, in any case, once Hans gets the development version of NUT, he can then produce enough debugging output so that we can hopefully support the model. -- Peter Marc Collin wrote: Le vendredi 8 septembre 2006 15:35, Peter Selinger a =E9crit=A0: Charles Lepple wrote: On 9/8/06, Hans Fugal

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Shutdown after 5 minutes?

2006-09-04 Thread Peter Selinger
on the NUT site, but maybe not the correct ones? Rob Peter Selinger wrote: Rob wrote: What would I be looking for that I didn't see in my testing with my windows box? Should I be trying to sniff the serial connection to see if the UPS is for some reason sending a weird signal

Re: [Nut-upsuser] suse linux and nut

2006-08-30 Thread Peter Selinger
Arnaud Quette wrote: Hi 2006/8/27, Peter Selinger [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ... What's to do here for the NUT developers is: first, improve support for interrupt transfers in newhidups. right, as we still rely on the (very) early code I first wrote. moreover, the big nested if in update

Re: [Nut-upsuser] suse linux and nut

2006-08-30 Thread Peter Selinger
Arnaud Quette wrote: 2006/8/30, Peter Selinger [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Arnaud Quette wrote: Hi 2006/8/27, Peter Selinger [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ... What's to do here for the NUT developers is: first, improve support for interrupt transfers in newhidups. right, as we still

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Problems with APC Smart-UPS 1500 USB and, newhidups

2006-08-28 Thread Peter Selinger
Paolo Pedroni wrote: Anyway, I have found something in the debug output that does not seem norma= l, and maybe you may want to check it. The relevant output (/lib/nut/newhidups -DD -a SmartUps1500) is as follows: (snip) Waiting for notifications... upsdrv_updateinfo... Waiting for

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Shutdown after 5 minutes?

2006-08-28 Thread Peter Selinger
. This would yank the power from your UPS. In the above setup, you would see the lamp go off as the computer is preparing to shut down. -- Peter Peter Selinger wrote: That is very odd indeed. Why should the system shut off abruptly? If the log shows nothing, then it seems that the UPS just

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Shutdown after 5 minutes?

2006-08-26 Thread Peter Selinger
That is very odd indeed. Why should the system shut off abruptly? If the log shows nothing, then it seems that the UPS just turned off the power. I recommend testing this while attaching, say, a lamp to the UPS, instead of a computer. (You can still use your computer to monitor the UPS, just

Re: [Nut-upsuser] suse linux and nut

2006-08-26 Thread Peter Selinger
Marc Collin wrote: linux64:/home/collinm/Download/trunk # /usr/local/ups/bin/upsc [EMAIL PROTECTED] driver.name: newhidups driver.parameter.port: /dev/hiddev0 driver.version: 2.1.0 driver.version.data: PowerCom HID 0.1 driver.version.internal: 0.30 powercom.coll2.feature3: 1

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