[Nut-upsuser] Fwd: APC Back-UPS ES 700 under FreeBSD

[Marius Nünnerich]

On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 4:02 PM, Daniel O'Connor <doconnor at gsoft.com.au> wrote:
> On Sat, 9 Aug 2008, Marius Nünnerich wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm currently trying to install a APC Back-UPS ES 700 on FreeBSD.
>> This UPS has a usb connection to the PC and is recognized as:
>>
>> ugen0: APC Back-UPS ES 700 FW:829.D2 .I USB FWD2 rev 1.10/1.06, addr
>> 2
>>
>> my ups.conf looks like:
>> [back-ups]
>>   driver = usbhid-ups
>>   port = auto
>>   desc = "server"
>>
>> When I now run /usr/local/libexec/nut/upsdrvctl start the output is:
>> Network UPS Tools - UPS driver controller 2.2.2
>> Network UPS Tools: 0.29 USB communication driver - core 0.33 (2.2.2)
>>
>> No matching HID UPS found
>> Driver failed to start (exit status=1)
>>
>> I chmodded /dev/ugen0 to 777 for testing but it doesn't help.
>>
>> Anyone has an idea what to try next? Maybe there is just some usb id
>> missing in the driver so it will recognize this ups?
>
> Try chmod'ing /dev/usb* 666.
>
> Unfortunately it seems you can't just grant privs to your NUT user for a
> specific device - libusb also needs /dev/usb* to find them :(

Thanks for your answer!
Unfortunatly I don't have access to the system for the next couple of days.

I did run upsdrvctl as root so the permissions shouldn't really matter, or
does upsdrvctl/upshid-usb drop privileges?