Re: [Nut-upsuser] usbhid-ups must use '-u root'

2014-11-14 Thread Greg Vickers
Well, it won't install because the version in wheezy is the same as the version in wheezy-backports. Right: # ls -la /dev/bus/usb/002 total 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 80 Nov 15 13:31 . drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 140 Nov 15 13:31 .. crw-rw-r-T 1 root root 189, 128 Nov 15 13:31 001 crw-rw-r-T

Re: [Nut-upsuser] usbhid-ups must use '-u root'

2014-11-14 Thread Greg Vickers
Hi, Self-reply ftw, is it something to do with the permissions of the device that is created when the UPS is plugged in? I remember that Debian does have a pretty strict permissions structure, so do I have to fiddle the permissions of something in /dev? I'll try updating nut-server to versi

[Nut-upsuser] usbhid-ups must use '-u root'

2014-11-14 Thread Greg Vickers
Hi all, (Keeping this in a separate email from my first one so as to not make it horribly complex) I've connected my Belkin F6C120auUNV UPS to my Debian 7.7.0 host via USB, and found that the usbhid-ups driver will not start unless I use the option '-u root', even when starting this driver a

[Nut-upsuser] Belkin UPS, master netbook, slave MythTV server

2014-11-14 Thread Greg Vickers
Hi all, I've finally gotten around to setting up the netbook that controls my UPS and I would like to make sure that I've got the metacode correct before configuring nut :) Here's what I've got: Belkin UPS F6C120auUNV * Batteries recently replaced * On battery: 24 port switch, PoE AP, ante