[Nut-upsuser] upsd problem with NUT 2.6.1

[Kostas Oikonomou]

Charles,

That was it! The permissions on

/devices/pci at 0,0/pci103c,2a6c at 2/*

Apparently they don't stick through a reboot.  Thanks very 
much, again.

				Kostas

On 09/ 1/11 10:56 PM, Charles Lepple wrote:
> On Sep 1, 2011, at 7:59 PM, Kostas Oikonomou wrote:
>
>> W.r.t. to Arnaud's suggestion, yes, I did that in order to
>> get the UPS working in the first place:
>>
>> pfexec /usr/sbin/add_drv -i '"usb9ae,1008.10"' -m '* 0660
>> nut ups' ugen
>>
>> I verified that this is still valid by doing "prtconf -v"
>> which yields (sorry for long output)
>>
>> ....
>>
> [trimmed]
>> The important thing is the 'compatible' entry above, which
>> includes 'usb9ae,1008.10'.
>>
>> Anyhow, doesn't the fact that
>>
>> pfexec /opt/nut/2.6.1/bin/usbhid-ups -DD -a eco550 -u root
>>
>> works fine indicate that the ugen driver is ok?
>
> The uhid -> ugen thing is only part of the problem. I
> assumed that the "0660 nut ups" part of the command was for
> permissions, but later you also mentioned another device node:
>
> "Sorry for all these emails: finally, it was a permissions
> problem on the usb device itself, i.e.
>
> /devices/pci at 0,0/pci103c,2a6c at 2/*
>
> Thanks very much for all your help."
>
> I have no idea how to get those permissions to stick, though.
>