[Nut-upsuser] Re: AMD64 upsmon problem

[Andrzej Zawadzki]

Arnaud Quette wrote:
> Hi Andrzej,
> 
> 2005/10/14, Andrzej Zawadzki <zawadaa at wp.pl <mailto:zawadaa at wp.pl>>:
> 
>     Arnaud Quette wrote:
>      > ...
>      > try "upsmon -D" to have more info and send it back.
>     I was quite busy:
> 
> 
> I'll soon have to create a new term: busier isn't enough ;-)
Wrrr my last week was extremly busy...

>     # upsmon -D
>     Network UPS Tools upsmon 2.0.2
>     UPS: apc at fabryka (slave) (power value 1)
>     getpwnam((null)): Success
> 
> 
> I think the problem might sit here.
> upsmon tries to get the user name under which it should start.
> and it's displayed as "null" here!
Bingo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

> Questions:
> - how did you installed NUT?  (from source or package)
> => if from source, what did you put for <username> in the "configure 
> --with-user=<username>"? This default to nobody if you have not put 
> anything, so check a nobody user exists, or create one.
> => if from package, what system, URL of the packages, ...
nut.spec was wrong - user "ups" was add only when nut-server was instaled...
So... I fixed that (I think ;-)
http://cvs.pld-linux.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/SPECS/nut.spec?rev=1.97

>     # ps aux|grep ups
>     #
> 
>     Nothing more...
> 
> 
> we don't need more for the moment, just time to audit...
Thank You Arnaud!!
Now it works. :-) :-)

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Andrzej Zawadzki
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