On 05/03/2011, at 4:50, Frederic Praca wrote: > As I feared, changing the group for ugen4.2 had no effect. > I used to try 'usbhid-ups' by hand under root account. > So the message still remains the same : > # ./usbhid-ups -a eaton > Network UPS Tools - Generic HID driver 0.35 (2.6.0) > USB communication driver 0.31 > No matching HID UPS found
It will drop root privs though, try.. ./usbhid-ups -u root -a eaton I have an Ellipse 1000VA connected to my FreeBSD server using usbhid-ups [midget 10:26] ~ >cat /usr/local/etc/nut/ups.conf [mge] driver = usbhid-ups port = usb # Give the system enough time to shutdown when the power fails offdelay = 120 # ondelay must be greater than offdelay so change it too ondelay = 130 ###pollonly [midget 10:26] ~ >cat /usr/local/etc/devd/nut.conf attach 100 { match "vendor" "0x0463"; match "product" "0xffff"; action "/usr/sbin/chown nutmon: /dev/$device-name"; }; I built my NUT port with a new user (nutmon) vs using uucp but that shouldn't mater. > I wondered how the USB UPS are detected and if my UPS is described in > the source code. Any idea of where I should take a look ? What happens when you run it with -D -D -D to enable debugging? > > > Fred > -- > L'homme est visiblement fait pour penser ; > c'est toute sa dignité et tout son métier, > et tout son devoir est de penser comme il faut. > -+- Blaise Pascal (1623-1662), Pensées II.146 -+- > > _______________________________________________ > Nut-upsuser mailing list > Nut-upsuser@lists.alioth.debian.org > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/nut-upsuser > -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C _______________________________________________ Nut-upsuser mailing list Nut-upsuser@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/nut-upsuser