On Fri, 16 May 2008 14:57:24 -0700 (PDT), maxim wexler wrote: > > Thanks for your exhaustive replies. I've decided to go > > for the APC ES-350 for seventy bucks at the local Staples.
> But when I try dialup I get this: > > Device ttyS0 is blocked by PID 3981 > > which turns out is apcupsd. So I have to kill it before I can dial out. > Sure enough, in the conf file there is this: DEVICE /dev/ttyS0. Is this a serial or USB model? My APC CS 650 uses USB and the DEVICE entry in the config file is just "DEVICE" as per the comments in the file and the man page. If it is a serial device, then you clearly cannot have two devices plugged into the same post, so one of them must be ttyS1 or higher. -- Neil Bothwick WinErr 002: No Error - Yet
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