[Nut-upsuser] Re: NUT with bcmxcp_usb driver

[Arnaud Quette]

Hi Andrew,

thanks to subscribe to nut-upsuser and continue on this one:
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/nut-upsuser

The solution to your problem depends on the way you installed NUT.
It's possibly one of these:
https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/nut/+bug/6679
https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/nut/+bug/6585

Andrew Wallace wrote:
> Hi
>
> I've been trying to get NUT working with my POWERWARE 5110, I am using
> the bcmxcp_usb driver, but its not working properly, I am able to get
> the driver to connect to the ups, but only if I add -u root to the
> command. (This is not too much of a problem atm, but I would like to be
> able to run it as nut)
>
> The problem is when I run upsd, I get, Can't connect to UPS [powerware]
> (bcmxcp_usb-auto): Permission denied, as it is trying to run as the nut
> user, any help would be appeciated
>
> Thanks

Arnaud
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