[Nut-upsuser] newhidups failing with Nova 1100 on FC5

[lonely wolf]

On 07/05/2006 12:21 AM, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
>> if you are willing to try a devel version, you can rebuild / tune the 
>> src.rpm available at http://wdl.lug.ro/linux/rpms/nut/
>> the binaries are generated on a centos 4 but the same src.rpm can be used 
>> on centos-3. I have no FC no test, but I see no reason it would not work.
>>     
>
> I was able to get those to work, but I needed to run upsd and newhidups as
> root. I think this is related to having access to the usb device. Possibly
> something in the fedora rpms provides this and the ones above don't.
> If worse comes to worse I can live with that until 2.2 is in fedora extras.
> This did cause me some confusion about what was broken. For a while I thought
> it was the kernel, but that ended up not being the case.
>
> I'll let it run for a while and report back if any of the daemons die.
>   

Given the time, I'll try to take a look at the scripts in fedora and try 
to clone what they do.