[Nut-upsuser] UPS problem

[Kjell Claesson]

Hi Martin,
mån 2006-08-14 klockan 14:02 +0300 skrev Martin Ivanov:
> Hello!
> I am running Slackware Linux 10.2 with kernel bareacpi.i 2.4.31. My UPS is 
> inform
> GUARD series
> line interactive UPS
> 
> This is all the info I could extract from my UPS's documentation. I downloaded and installed the NUT Slcakware package nut-1.4.1-i486-1JKv.
> The hostname of my system is "marto", the domain name is "mydomain". Apart from the "root", I have one user "marto".

This seems to be an old package. Then NUT has reached 2.0.4 now. 

8<----------------snip--------------------
> The problem is that when I run "upsd", the following message appears:
> 
> Network UPS Tools upsd 1.4.1
> /var/state/ups is world readable
> Can't connect to UPS [InformGuard] (genericups-ttyS0): No such file or directory
> /etc/upsd.conf is world readable
> /etc/upsd.users is world readable
> Synchronizing........ giving up
> 
> What do you think the problem is? Any solution? Thank you very much in advance.
> 

What does it say when you run

upsdrvctl start

It look like the driver is not starting.

Regards
Kjell