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

[lonely wolf]

On 07/05/2006 04:57 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.
>>     
>
> This should be the final followup. Everything is working as expected now.
> I was able to use the src rpm from the above site. The binary rpms had
> a dependency on a version of an snmp library that wasn't installed that
> was fixed by doing an rpmbuild to make new binary rpms. The other important
> issue is that these rpms don't installed the udev rule file needed to
> access the usb port as 'nut'. (If you hadn't previously installed nut, I am
> not user if the 'nut' user will exist, so you might also need to do that.)
>   
the postinstall script takes care of creating the user "nut"
> You can copy the file scripts/hotplug-ng/nut-usbups.rules.in to
> /etc/udev/rules.d/nut-usbups.rules . You will probab;ly need to create
> the rules.d directory. rules.d and nut-usbups.rules can be publicly
> readable and should be owned by root. In nut-usbups.rules you need to
> substitute @RUN_AS_USER@ with nut .
>   
Thank you for the info. I will update the rpms to include/execute the 
udev rules.