[Nut-upsuser] Status of tripplite_usb driver?

[Peter Selinger]

I am not an expert on upsd. Anybody? -- Peter

Gregory Gulik wrote:
> 
> That's exactly what I'm doing.
> Upsd still can't seem to communicate with the tripplite_usb driver.
> It's saying the file is not found.
> 
> Here's what strace is showing:
> 
> socket(PF_FILE, SOCK_STREAM, 0)         = 5
> connect(5, {sa_family=AF_FILE, path="tripplite"}, 110) = -1 ENOENT (No 
> such file
>  or directory)
> close(5)                                = 0
> time([1140700593])                      = 1140700593
> select(4, [3], NULL, NULL, {2, 0})      = 0 (Timeout)
> socket(PF_FILE, SOCK_STREAM, 0)         = 5
> connect(5, {sa_family=AF_FILE, path="tripplite"}, 110) = -1 ENOENT (No 
> such file
>  or directory)
> close(5)                                = 0
> time([1140700595])                      = 1140700595
> select(4, [3], NULL, NULL, {2, 0})      = 0 (Timeout)
> socket(PF_FILE, SOCK_STREAM, 0)         = 5
> connect(5, {sa_family=AF_FILE, path="tripplite"}, 110) = -1 ENOENT (No 
> such file
>  or directory)
> close(5)                               
> 
> Peter Selinger wrote:
> 
> >
> >If you are running the driver with "-u root", then you must run upsd
> >with "-u root" as well. This is (I think) because upsd communicates
> >with the driver through a socket that is owned by the driver.
> >  
> >
> 
> -- 
> Greg Gulik                                 http://www.gulik.org/greg/
> greg @ gulik.org
> 
>