[Nut-upsuser] Bogus "UPS not available" messages

[Eric S. Raymond]

Arjen de Korte <nut+users at de-korte.org>:
> This looks a lot like problems with setting the access controls or on
> the upsd server. Could you post the contents of 'upsd.conf' and
> 'upsd.users' here or in a private message? This certainly has nothing to
> do with the driver.

-- upsd.conf ---------------------------------------------------------------
ACL all 0.0.0.0/0
ACL localhost 127.0.0.1/32
ACL snark 192.168.1.11/32

ACCEPT localhost
ACCEPT mybox
REJECT all
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

--- upsd.users -------------------------------------------------------------
[monuser]
        password  = arkleseizure
        allowfrom = snark
        upsmon master
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

> Where would we stop? Should we provide links to all system commands we
> use?

No, but manual-page references would be a good idea.

> I understand, but also note that we have other things to do as well,
> besides educating people on where to find their syslog.

This comes down to a difference in philosophy.  You clearly think of
mut as a tool designed for Unix sysadmins by Unix sysdamins.  I'm an
old Unix hand too,but I have gotten user-centric religion and am no
longer satisfied with the kind of documentation that issue from the
old-Unix-hand attitude.
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		<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>