<br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/7/29 Svein Skogen (listmail account) <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:svein-listmail@stillbilde.net">svein-listmail@stillbilde.net</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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</div><div class="im">Charles Lepple wrote:<br>
> On Jul 29, 2009, at 5:26 AM, Svein Skogen (listmail account) wrote:<br>
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>> On a sidenote, I had a really hard time getting the usbhid-ups driver<br>
>> working in FreeBSD running as a non-privileged user (even with<br>
>> permissions on the /dev/ file set properly). Running it as root works,<br>
>> though, so no biggie (I have the luxury of having the ups connected to a<br>
>> dedicated box that is sufficiently fenced off from the rest of the<br>
>> network).<br>
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> I don't have my FreeBSD box handy, but I seem to remember having to set<br>
> permissions on both the bus (for libusb to enumerate the devices) and on<br>
> the device's /dev node itself.<br>
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</div>That I didn't try. I'll try it later (right now the weather here is too<br>
unstable for me to consider messing with the UPS setup just when I might<br>
need it). Thanks for the tip. (If this works, maybe it should be added<br>
to some documentation?)<br>
<div class="im"></div></blockquote><div><br>sure, and even more knowing that we're working on the new shiny doc.<br>I'm also keen in automating the process, if possible, as for udev on Linux.<br><br>any hints / feedback is welcome since I'm not a *BSD user (simply due to a lack of time, not of interest!)<br>
</div></div><br>cheers,<br>Arnaud<br>-- <br>Linux / Unix Expert R&D - Eaton - <a href="http://www.eaton.com/mgeops">http://www.eaton.com/mgeops</a><br>Network UPS Tools (NUT) Project Leader - <a href="http://www.networkupstools.org/">http://www.networkupstools.org/</a><br>
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