[Nut-upsuser] This guy must be an idiot

Charles Lepple clepple at gmail.com
Sat May 30 02:59:25 UTC 2009


On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 1:10 AM, Leslie Rhorer <lrhorer at satx.rr.com> wrote:
>        OK, can someone tell me what utterly moronic thing I am doing wrong?
>
>        I have two roughly identical Linux system running NUT, and one works
> properly.  The other almost does.  The second system works well once
> everything is up, but after booting, the system does not have connectivity
> to the UPS.  I have to manually run `upsdrvctl start backup`,
> `/etc/init.d/nut start`, and `upsd` to get NUT working.  Thereafter it works
> fine, whether anyone is logged in or not.  After a boot, however, I have to
> log in and kick-start it again.
>
>        What am I missing? The S50nut symlink is in /etc/rc2.d, and both
> systems are at runlevel 2.  I set up the systems the very same way (as far
> as I can remember or tell), except that one employs driver = tripplite_usb
> in usb.conf and the other uses driver = usbhid-ups, plus the two have
> different backup names.  Otherwise, I think everything is the same.

What do the /etc/default/nut files look like on both systems?

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- Charles Lepple



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