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

2007-02-12 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Monday 12 February 2007 16:58, Herman J van der Merwe 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. If you use the port you should get .sample versions of the configuration files will be installed.

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

2007-02-12 Thread Charles Lepple
Sorry to jump in on the ports discussion, but I help out with packaging for the Fink project (which is conceptually similar to the ports system, but for Mac OS X) and this similar to frustrations that I deal with on Fink. Most of the time, if a maintainer puts something into Fink or ports, it

[Nut-upsuser] Re: NUT help

2007-02-12 Thread Charles Lepple
On 2/12/07, Herman J van der Merwe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, I have NUT up and running, but I want other FreeBSD hosts (machines) to monitor the UPS as well and when the UPS sends a shutdown, they must shutdown as well. According to the INSTALL.txt file, I ,ust add an ACL entry for every

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] Fwd: NUT on FreeBSD

2007-02-12 Thread Herman J van der Merwe
Daniel, you asked why I did not use the port for NUT. Here is why. I did not use ports (which is my fav way of doing installations, because the port is broken for 2.0.5. I can either spend the time figuring out how to fix the port or to alternatively learn the program. BROKEN PORT - ---

[Nut-upsuser] FreeBSD - master privilages unavailable

2007-02-12 Thread Herman J van der Merwe
I have searched high and low and cannot (as a newbie) seem to find the reason why I get the following errors when I start upsmon Feb 13 00:52:35 fileserver upsmon[904]: Master privileges unavailable on UPS [EMAIL PROTECTED] Feb 13 00:52:35 fileserver upsmon[904]: Reason: Access deniedmy