[Nut-upsuser] [Nut-upsdev] Belkin USB UPSes

[Alexander I. Gordeev]

On Tue, 22 May 2007 20:56:37 +0400, Arjen de Korte <nut+users at de-korte.org> wrote:

>
>> I can only suggest to try running
>>
>> megatec_usb -a <ups_name>
>>
>> (with some -D options probably) to ensure that it does the same thing as
>> upsdrvctl...
>>
>> The worst thing is that '-D' option of upsdrvctl doesn't actually
>> show debug info...
>
> That's by design. Using 'upsdrvctl' implies backgrounding a driver, which
> is obviously not what you want when you want it to run in debug mode.
> Imagine that you want to change the command line parameters (to raise or
> lower the debug level for instance). Finding how to stop the backgrounded
> process is a pain then and will sure result in many questions from users
> that have no idea how to send such a process a kill signal.
>
> If you're just interested in the debug output, running
>
>     <drivername> -DDDDD -a <upsname>
>
> is not that difficult to remember.
>
> Best regards, Arjen

Ok, I get it, thanks. Starting driver manually should be enough.

-- 
   Alexander