[Nut-upsuser] still no nut at reboot

[Gene Heskett]

On Sunday, November 14, 2010 08:12:43 pm Gene Heskett did opine:

ok, back after the reboot to get everything on the same page again, or so I 
thought.  Silly me.

now, I have a ups.conf containing this:

[root at coyote etc]# cat ups.conf
[coyotes-ups]
                driver = usbhid-ups
                port = auto
                desc = "Belkin ups usb interface"

So, first checking to see if the /etc/init.d/upsd script left anything I 
needed to kill behind, but it didn't, then check the perms on the /dev/hid* 
stuffs and find:
[root at coyote etc]# ls -l /dev/hid*
crw------- 1 root root 250, 0 2010-11-14 20:00 /dev/hidraw0
crw------- 1 root root 250, 1 2010-11-14 20:00 /dev/hidraw1

So I am at step 8 of the INSTALL printout.
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[root at coyote ~]# /usr/local/ups/bin/upsdrvctl start
Network UPS Tools - UPS driver controller 2.4.3-2672M
Network UPS Tools - Generic HID driver 0.35 (2.4.3-2672M)
USB communication driver 0.31
Using subdriver: Belkin HID 0.12

Fatal error: unable to create listener socket

bind /var/state/ups/usbhid-ups-coyotes-ups failed: Permission denied

Exiting.
Driver failed to start (exit status=1)
-------then--------
[root at coyote ~]# lsusb |grep elkin
Bus 002 Device 008: ID 050d:0751 Belkin Components 

So lets stop right here and fix this.  First:

[root at coyote etc]# grep ups /etc/passwd
ups:x:502:504::/home/ups:/bin/bash

There is no 'nut' in /etc/passwd now.

and:
[root at coyote etc]# grep nut /etc/group
nut:x:503:ups


The whole thing has been rebuilt and reinstalled, but the .conf and .user 
files are still there.

And I see the hacked mdv script to start it doesn't have a link in 
/etc/rc5.d, so it did not attempt to run at bootup.

Whats next coach?  I'm going blind staring at this, and probably missing 
something obvious, like hacking on the 52-* udev script some more to change 
some perms?  FWIW, changing all the 'ATTR' to 'ATTRS' shut it up 
completely.  This was udev complaining about a deprecated format.  Other 
than the spelling, I didn't change anything else.

So I'm waiting on you now.

Thanks Charles

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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