[Nut-upsuser] upstart configuration for nut

2008-05-14 Thread Udo van den Heuvel
Hello, I'm just migrating my boxes to fedora 9 which brings us to the upstart mechanism instead of SystemV, etc.The distro as it is delivered does not have configuration which supports powerfail events. What can I put in /etc/events.d to make nut work again with the rest of the system fortimely s

Re: [Nut-upsuser] nut upset after Oops

2007-03-07 Thread Udo van den Heuvel
Charles Lepple wrote: > On 3/6/07, Udo van den Heuvel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > What's the cause for this vague message? >> > The Megatec starts OK, then the upsd cannot connect to the ups >> (megatec...). >> >> If I start t

Re: [Nut-upsuser] nut upset after Oops

2007-03-06 Thread Udo van den Heuvel
Arjen de Korte wrote: > Udo van den Heuvel wrote: > >> If I start the daemons manually, following the info at >> http://www.networkupstools.org/doc/2.0.1/INSTALL.html The programs start >> OK, no error there. >> How can I automate this? Why don't the scripts wor

Re: [Nut-upsuser] nut upset after Oops

2007-03-06 Thread Udo van den Heuvel
Udo van den Heuvel wrote: > (cut) > > Looked over the configs which were (mostly) unchanged from the previous > version. > What's the cause for this vague message? > The Megatec starts OK, then the upsd cannot connect to the ups (megatec...). If I start the daemons manua

Re: [Nut-upsuser] nut upset after Oops

2007-03-06 Thread Udo van den Heuvel
Udo van den Heuvel wrote: > Arjen de Korte wrote: >>>> Please start by providing some information. What NUT version are you >>>> using, what driver? >>> The FC6 binary for 2.0.3-2.1. >>> I use the Mustek PowerMust driver with a Sweex UPS. >>

Re: [Nut-upsuser] nut upset after Oops

2007-03-06 Thread Udo van den Heuvel
Arjen de Korte wrote: >>> Please start by providing some information. What NUT version are you >>> using, what driver? >> The FC6 binary for 2.0.3-2.1. >> I use the Mustek PowerMust driver with a Sweex UPS. > > Before trying anything else, upgrade to nut-2.0.5. OK, done. (did my own build becaus

Re: [Nut-upsuser] nut upset after Oops

2007-03-06 Thread Udo van den Heuvel
Arjen de Korte wrote: >> Sometimes even after the restart nut keeps complaining even though the >> UPS is OK. > > You failed to mention the version of NUT you're using and it's also not > quite clear to me if you're using a USB driver or a serial driver (posting > the output of the driver startup

Re: [Nut-upsuser] nut upset after Oops

2007-03-06 Thread Udo van den Heuvel
Peter Selinger wrote: > Udo van den Heuvel wrote: >> How can I fix this? > > Please start by providing some information. What NUT version are you > using, what driver? The FC6 binary for 2.0.3-2.1. I use the Mustek PowerMust driver with a Sweex UPS. > What messages do yo

Re: [Nut-upsuser] nut upset after Oops

2007-03-06 Thread Udo van den Heuvel
Arjen de Korte wrote: >> When my kernel oopses (not ups/nut related) nut is somewhat upset and >> keeps complaining that power is gone, and restored, etc, etc, etc. >> >> How can I fix this? > > Which NUT version? UPS connected through serial or USB? Operating system? > What is the reason the kern

[Nut-upsuser] nut upset after Oops

2007-03-06 Thread Udo van den Heuvel
Hello, When my kernel oopses (not ups/nut related) nut is somewhat upset and keeps complaining that power is gone, and restored, etc, etc, etc. How can I fix this? Kind regards, Udo ___ Nut-upsuser mailing list Nut-upsuser@lists.alioth.debian.org http

Re: [Nut-upsuser] sweex 1000VA LB OB issue

2007-01-28 Thread Udo van den Heuvel
Arjen de Korte wrote: >> This suggests that sweex doesn't know what UPS'es they are actually >> shipping. Or to stupid to include the right manual.. > > Spot on. I have told them this more than two years ago, but apparently > they just don't care about it. They are notorious for not caring at al

Re: [Nut-upsuser] FreeBSD 6.1, MGE Ellipse ASR600USBS, newhidups & upsd

2006-11-24 Thread Udo van den Heuvel
Arjen de Korte wrote: >> I still see occasional loss of connections, but things seem to work a lot >> better in 2.1. > > I have noticed that too. The UPSes I monitor (via serial interface) lose > connection every couple of days (random) and reconnect almost immediately. Could this be the reason f

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Spurious messages on start

2006-11-11 Thread Udo van den Heuvel
Pedro CĂ´rte-Real wrote: > When I start or restart nut I get three spurious messages as > everything starts up: > > UPS [EMAIL PROTECTED] is unavailable > Communications with UPS [EMAIL PROTECTED] lost > Communications with UPS [EMAIL PROTECTED] established I see the same stuff when I use my USB p

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Sweex 1000VA UPS

2006-11-09 Thread Udo van den Heuvel
YvesDM wrote: > So what is your upsdrvctl problem? > > > > Are we talking the same UPS here? I have a Sweex, 800VA or so? > If yes, I wish I knew ! Maybe try the source to see what the function does that is mentioned in the error? ___ Nut-upsus

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Sweex 1000VA UPS

2006-11-09 Thread Udo van den Heuvel
YvesDM wrote: > On 11/8/06, *Udo van den Heuvel* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > Try Powermust. > > > radius1:/etc/nut# cat ups.conf > # Network UPS Tools: example ups.conf > # > user = nut > > [ups_name] >

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Sweex 1000VA UPS

2006-11-08 Thread Udo van den Heuvel
Try Powermust. Arjen de Korte wrote: >> I'm trying to get a sweex ups working with nut on debian sarge. > > Good luck! Sweex is notorious for changing their products internally, ___ Nut-upsuser mailing list Nut-upsuser@lists.alioth.debian.org http://l

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Shutdown after 5 minutes?

2006-09-16 Thread Udo van den Heuvel
Peter Selinger wrote: > Rob wrote: >> However, I did notice that in windows, the default setting for the UPS >> software was to shutdown 5 minutes after power had been removed. It's >> possible that the UPS defaults to shut down after 5 minutes unless the >> software configures it differently.

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Shutdown after 5 minutes?

2006-09-15 Thread Udo van den Heuvel
Peter Selinger wrote: > On the other hand, did someone say that it does *not* do this under > Windows? All I wrote was that I bought 2 identical UPSses (800VA) at the sime time, earlier this year. One is suporting the Windoze box. The other one is powering the Epia-based Linux firewall (plus swit

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Shutdown after 5 minutes?

2006-09-15 Thread Udo van den Heuvel
Doug Reynolds wrote: >> As I wrote to someone else recently on this list: A battery can >> appear to have a good charge state (= voltage) even when it's gone >> bad & developed a high internal resistance. That happened to me a >> while back when I wasn't even running any software to control UPS.

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Shutdown after 5 minutes?

2006-09-14 Thread Udo van den Heuvel
Rob wrote: > Here's an updated set of info on my UPS, which includes what upsc > reports when the power is pulled by the computers are still on: We had a power outage this morning and I did some monitoring on the UPS which is connected to my small Linux box. Battery charge did not go below 70% whe

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Shutdown after 5 minutes?

2006-09-06 Thread Udo van den Heuvel
Doug Reynolds wrote: > Rob wrote: >> Peter Selinger wrote: [...] >> True, but it doesn't make my statement about the confusion I have >> regarding upsmon, upssched, and shutdown scripts any less true. :) >> Granted, that's probably a different discussion than the current one. >> I'll post the resul

[Nut-upsuser] nut and usb activity

2006-08-26 Thread Udo van den Heuvel
Hello, I inserted a USB multi-cardreader to read my SD cards; I noticed this upset nut and pptpd a bit: Aug 27 08:27:59 epia kernel: usb 3-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3 Aug 27 08:27:59 epia kernel: usb 3-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice Aug 27 08:27:59 epia ker

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Shutdown after 5 minutes?

2006-08-26 Thread Udo van den Heuvel
Rob wrote: >> Did you try switching the two machines? > > On my system, I only have 1 UPS and I have monitored it in windows and > in Linux. In windows, the same set of systems will properly wait until > the designated time to shutdown (>5 minutes). When I boot into Linux, > my Linux system perf

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Shutdown after 5 minutes?

2006-08-26 Thread Udo van den Heuvel
Hello, Rob wrote: > I've seen the same behavior when using the cpsups driver on Debian > Unstable, but haven't had time to try to track it down. Where are the > shutdown timings configured? From the manpages it looks to be > configured in the driver, but the cpsups driver manpage says it doesn't

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Shutdown after 5 minutes?

2006-08-25 Thread Udo van den Heuvel
Charles Lepple wrote: > On 8/25/06, Udo van den Heuvel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Is this a configuration issue? What did I overlook? > > Hard to tell. Please provide some more information, including: > > * Version of nut 2.0.3-2 > * Distribution of Linux Red

[Nut-upsuser] Shutdown after 5 minutes?

2006-08-25 Thread Udo van den Heuvel
Hello, Last night we had a power failure and my upsses worked. Strange thing was that the ups supporting the Windoze box lasted longer than the one supporting the (Epia based) Linux box (running nut). After exactly 5 minutes the Linux machine went down abruptly. Is this a configuration issue? Wha