[Nut-upsuser] upsd problem with NUT 2.6.1

[Charles Lepple]

On Aug 31, 2011, at 8:32 PM, Kostas Oikonomou wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've had NUT 2.6.1 on OpenIndiana working with a Tripp-Lite ECO550.   
> I've been playing around with the config files a little bit, and I  
> must have done something that messed up the demon.  I now get
>
> wiley$ pfexec /opt/nut/sbin/upsd -DD
> Network UPS Tools upsd 2.6.1
>   0.000000	listening on 127.0.0.1 port 3493
>   0.000486	listening on ::1 port 3493
>   0.001279	Can't connect to UPS [eco550] (usbhid-ups-eco550): No  
> such file or directory
>   0.003922	mainloop: polling 2 filedescriptors
>   2.013960	mainloop: no data available
>   2.014191	mainloop: polling 2 filedescriptors
>   4.024208	mainloop: no data available
>   4.024453	mainloop: polling 2 filedescriptors
>   6.034474	mainloop: no data available
>   6.034733	mainloop: polling 2 filedescriptors
> ^C   7.598418	mainloop: Interrupted system call
>   7.598578	Signal 2: exiting
>
> The "0.001279" line is correct: there is no such file, but there  
> never was.  There is only /opt/nut/bin/usbhid-ups. Why is the demon  
> looking for "usbhid-ups-eco550" now?


Hi Kostas,

It is actually looking for a Unix-domain driver state socket here, and  
the socket name is formed from the driver name (usbhid-ups), and the  
UPS name from the config file. From one of your earlier emails, I  
think the socket is created in /var/state/ups (the default directory).