I don't have a killall command, so I look at htop to find the usbhid-ups process. I see one from nut, sure:
Being that there are no USB or HID devices attached to the machine, is it safe to assume that this is the only process using usbhid-ups already? In any case, I just checked syslog & there's no more of the message that there was the other day. Also when I connect a local terminal, it's ok. I don't know what changed between now and then, but it seems to have resolved itself. Thanks nonetheless. On Mon, 18 Oct 2010 18:07 +0200, "Arnaud Quette" <aquette....@gmail.com> wrote: Hi 2010/10/17 <[1]deb...@proinbox.com> I don't follow what you're saying, but here's the output of the requested command. # ps -elf | grep usbhid-ups 1 S nut 1508 1 0 80 0 - 4159 - 00:45 ? 00:00:07 /lib/nut/usbhid-ups -a cyberpower 1 S nut 1677 1 0 80 0 - 4180 - 00:58 ? 00:00:10 /lib/nut/usbhid-ups -a cyberpower 1 S nut 1719 1 0 80 0 - 4180 - 01:35 ? 00:00:06 /lib/nut/usbhid-ups -a cyberpower 1 S nut 1732 1 0 80 0 - 4180 - 01:35 ? 00:00:03 /lib/nut/usbhid-ups -a cyberpower 0 S root 2073 2068 0 80 0 - 1887 - 09:06 pts/0 00:00:00 grep usbhid-ups ok, this is confirmed: you have 4 times the usbhid-ups driver running, instead of only *1* please kill all usbhid-ups instances (for example using "killall usbhid-ups" as root), then launch the only instance you want to see running, using "upsdrvctl start cyberpower" (still as root). then check if you syslog is still spammed. cheers, Arnaud -- Linux / Unix Expert R&D - Eaton - [2]http://www.eaton.com/mgeops Network UPS Tools (NUT) Project Leader - [3]http://www.networkupstools.org/ Debian Developer - [4]http://www.debian.org Free Software Developer - [5]http://arnaud.quette.free.fr/ References Visible links 1. mailto:deb...@proinbox.com 2. http://www.eaton.com/mgeops 3. http://www.networkupstools.org/ 4. http://www.debian.org/ 5. http://arnaud.quette.free.fr/ Hidden links: 6. http://screenshot.nocturnal.fea.st/usbhid-ups.jpg