[Nut-upsuser] nut 2.2.0 doesn't see MGE Elipse 1200 on FreeBSD 6.2

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Fri, 19 Oct 2007, Dan Rich wrote:
> I haven't tried the patch yet, but I just found part of the problem,
> it's related to the problem that was mentioned on the SUSE thread. 
> The FreeBSD port configures nut as user and group uucp.  By default,
> the ugen devices are root:operator.  I just added uucp to the
> operator group and now it at least sees my MGE!

You can use devfs rules or a devd scriptto modify the permissions on 
ugen automatically. (ie chown it nut:uucp if an MGE is plugged in)

> It looks like I'm getting data, I'll have to unplug the UPS from the
> wall tonight and see if the battery starts to show that it is
> discharging.  The last time I tried this, it would get the initial
> data but never change until the driver was reloaded (not all that
> useful in that state).

The problem in my experience is that it is not reliable :(

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