[Nut-upsuser] nut suddenly stopped working...

[Peter Selinger]

A.Lizard wrote:
> >> >This is also expected, since it sounds like you still have the driver
> >> >running with "-u root".
> >>
> >>I haven't been able to get it to run any other way - newhidups outputs
> >>(non-root and root) below.
> >
> >Right. The fact that it works when both the driver and upsd are passed
> >"-u root" points to a permissions problem.
> >
> >Basically, you need to pass the same system user to "-u" on both the
> >driver and upsd.
> 
> How?

By typing 

 upsd -u root

instead of

 upsd

-- Peter