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

[lonely wolf]

On 07/05/2006 12:21 AM, lonely wolf wrote:
> 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.
bad news: a quick diff between my spec and the one used in FC5 (v2.0.2) 
shows no difference related to the usb bus. actually the differences are 
related only to the files included, due to the some changes in the code.
if someone (anyone ) has a hint, please don't be shy :)