[Nut-upsuser] "Communications lost" temporarily at every startup

[Arjen de Korte]

Paul Mogren wrote:

> I did not have any success with adding a delay between
> startup of driver and server.

Did you add a *really* long delay, like 60-120 seconds or so?

> Yes, I am using openSUSE 10.2. Thanks for the RPM
> offer. I'll take you up on it; you can send it to this
> email address if you like, or send me a link, whatever
> works. Latest stable version would be good.

A link is in the mail. I do not have unlimited bandwidth available on
that server, so I would appreciate it if you kept the link for yourself.

> This leaves me wondering why, since you are a NUT
> maintainer and you already have the ability to build a
> SUSE RPM, that facility is not included among the
> packaging options in the NUT source tarball, and the
> link for SUSE RPM's on the NUT homepage is broken.

Even if it had not been broken, the RPM's that were available through
that link were hopelessly outdated (something like nut-1.2.1 if I
remember correctly). Someone from SuSE used to frequent the development
forum regularly and kept fairly recent RPM's available through the SuSE
services for development versions. However, I haven't seen him lately on
the mailinglist anymore and he does not respond to e-mails either.

> That way, people in my situation could get updates in
> the future. It would probably also speed official
> adoption of the new version by SUSE maintainers. Are
> you aware of the SUSE build service?

Yes, but never took the time to familiarize myself with it. The demand
for newer SuSE RPMs has been quite limited.

Best regards, Arjen