Greetings; I found pdf user manual which explains a few things that might help.
However, for a ubuntu flavor, the various .conf etc files seem to be in /etc/nut. But this pdf says they are in /usr/local/ups/etc, and yes indeed there are some there, with the .sample files being owned by root, and the rest are user 503, whoever he may be. Are these just a sample storage in case one needs to start from square #0 again? Or what? Then on down the page it says it should start by using upsdrvctl start, I get sudo upsdrvctl start Network UPS Tools - UPS driver controller 2.4.3 Network UPS Tools - Generic HID driver 0.34 (2.4.3) USB communication driver 0.31 Using subdriver: Belkin HID 0.12 Broadcast Message from gene@coyote (somewhere) at 19:16 ... Communications with UPS myups@localhost established Broadcast Message from gene@coyote (somewhere) at 19:16 ... Communications with UPS myups@localhost established Broadcast Message from gene@coyote (somewhere) at 19:16 ... Communications with UPS myups@localhost established But why do I get 3 of them? So I go thru htop, after issueing stops to upsdrvctl and nut, then restart the driver, then nut, and now my log is being spammed by: Oct 18 19:25:51 coyote kernel: [117004.485575] usb 1-10: usbfs: process 29641 (usbhid-ups) did not claim interface 0 before use Oct 18 19:25:54 coyote kernel: [117007.499806] usb 1-10: usbfs: process 29668 (usbhid-ups) did not claim interface 0 before use Oct 18 19:25:54 coyote kernel: [117007.499850] usb 1-10: usbfs: process 29668 (usbhid-ups) did not claim interface 0 before use about 1/second. Issueing the stop commands, I am told: Can't open /var/run/nut/usbhid-ups-3493.pid: No such file or directory by upsdvrctl. And it leaves usbhid-*** running and I have to kill it as root. So whats next? I don't seem to be getting very far in this maze. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> US V Castleman, SCOTUS, Mar 2014 is grounds for Impeaching SCOTUS _______________________________________________ Nut-upsuser mailing list Nut-upsuser@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nut-upsuser