[Nut-upsuser] NUT upsstats.cgi problem

[Brother Railgun of Reason]

On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 09:27:10PM -0400, Charles Lepple wrote:
> On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 9:58 PM, Brother Railgun of Reason
> <alaric at caerllewys.net> wrote:
> > I seem to have NUT all working with my R3000XR, except for the CGIs.
> > The webserver's all properly configured and upsstats.cgi *runs*, but
> > doesn't yield any useful output - no values are displayed, every value
> > is replaced by [error: Invalid argument].  Apache is not logging any
> > resulting errors, and there doesn't seem to be a lot of useful
> > documentation on the CGIs to troubleshoot with.
> 
> Are you still seeing this issue?
> 
> If you can use 'upsc' to query the UPS from your webserver, then it
> might be a configuration issue. In particular, you will be interested
> in the man page for hosts.conf.

Oh, I'm almost certain it's a configuration issue.  The very brief 
hosts.conf man page (which contains no information not found in 
hosts.conf.sample) only documents one available directive, which in my 
case is as follows:

MONITOR tokamak at localhost "HP R3000 XR (Server rack)"

upsc does indeed work.  upsstats.cgi doesn't.  upsstats.cgi(8) isn't 
really useful either.


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