[Nut-upsuser] upsd problem with NUT 2.6.1

[Charles Lepple]

On Sep 1, 2011, at 2:05 PM, Kostas Oikonomou wrote:

> The driver is not running. In fact, it appears I'm back to a problem  
> I had solved before:
>
> wiley$ pfexec /opt/nut/bin/upsdrvctl start
> Network UPS Tools - UPS driver controller 2.6.1
> Network UPS Tools - Generic HID driver 0.35 (2.6.1)
> USB communication driver 0.31
> No matching HID UPS found
> Driver failed to start (exit status=1)
> wiley$
>
> This was a permissions issue, but I now forgot exactly what.
>
> pfexec /opt/nut/2.6.1/bin/usbhid-ups -DD -a eco550 -u root
>
> works fine, which supports the permissions theory.


Has the UPS USB cable been unplugged since the permissions were first  
set?

If so, Arnaud's suggestion to make the add_drv rule more general might  
be the ticket:

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.monitoring.nut.user/6572

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