[Nut-upsuser] problems with nut - openSUSE 10.3

[Arjen de Korte]

> I am running openSUSE 10.3 with nut-2.2.0-20 installed. I have
> configured it as mentioned in /usr/share/doc/packages/nut/README.SUSE.
> on starting nut using "rcupsd start" i get following:
> #
> Starting NUT UPS monitor
> done
>
> Broadcast Message from root at pane
>         (somewhere) at 22:27 ...
>
> Communications with UPS myups at localhost lost
>
>
> Broadcast Message from root at pane
>         (somewhere) at 22:27 ...
>
> UPS myups at localhost is unavailable
> #
> syslog:
> Oct 18 22:27:29 pane upsmon[13329]: Startup successful
> Oct 18 22:27:29 pane upsmon[13330]: UPS [myups at localhost]: connect
> failed: Connection failure: Connection refused
> Oct 18 22:27:29 pane upsmon[13330]: Communications with UPS
> myups at localhost lost
> Oct 18 22:27:34 pane upsmon[13330]: UPS [myups at localhost]: connect
> failed: Connection failure: Connection refused
> Oct 18 22:27:34 pane upsmon[13330]: UPS myups at localhost is unavailable
> Oct 18 22:27:40 pane upsmon[13330]: UPS [myups at localhost]: connect
> failed: Connection failure: Connection refused
>
> i recognized upsd and the driver are not running...
> so i tried to start the driver manually... but it didn't have
> permissions on /dev/ttyS3, so i changed, and the driver works... then i
> could also start upsd manually...
> but upsmon or upsc can't connect to it:
> # upsc -l
> upsc.c:170: Error: Server disconnected
>
> i get the same if i trie manually to connect to port 3493, the
> connection is being closed at once..
>
> what am i doing wrong, and why the hell does /etc/init.d/upsd change the
> permissions on /dev/ttyS3 wrong?

This script is not part of NUT. Please file a bugreport with openSUSE:

        https://bugzilla.novell.com/

Apparently, openSUSE messed up the initialization script as well. :-(

Best regards, Arjen
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