[Nut-upsuser] iMAC does not shutdown

[Severini Simone]

Thanks, yes from macports.

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> On 05 Jun 2015, at 04:21, Charles Lepple <clepple at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Jun 4, 2015, at 10:41 AM, Simone Severini <severini.simone at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Thanks for your help!
>> In red below.
>> Cheers
>> simone
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>>> On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 2:45 PM, Charles Lepple <clepple at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On Jun 3, 2015, at 11:45 AM, Simone Severini <severini.simone at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Hi everybody!
>>>> It has been a journey but I almost manage to make my UPS properly communicate.
>>>> 
>>>> This is the config:
>>>> 
>>>> UPS Mecer/Mustek 2000 VA connected via USB with blazer_usb driver. 
>>>> MASTER Raspberry PI-1 
>>>> SLAVE Raspberry PI-2 
>>>> SLAVE iMac OSX 10.10.3 
>>>> 
>>>> I can get access to the UPS from any of the three devices successfully.
>>>> 
>>>> Problems:
>>>> 1. When I launch /usr/local/ups/sbin/upsmon -c fed for testing I see Rasp-2 Slave going down, Rasp-1 going down, iMac completely ignoring and not receiving any broadcast message on the terminal then brutally killed as the UPS auto shutdown.
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>>> If you search for 'upsmon' in /var/log/system.log on the iMac, does it appear to be logged in to upsd on the master?
>>> Jun  4 16:34:23 Simone.Home upsmon[1081]: writepid: fopen /opt/local/var/run/upsmon.pid: Permission denied
>>> Jun  4 16:34:24 Simone.Home upsmon[1081]: Login on UPS [ME-2000 at 192.168.1.69] failed - got [ERR ACCESS-DENIED] 
>> 
>> So there is one problem. How can I change permission on upsilon.pid.
> 
> The driver writes the PID file when it starts, and it drops privileges to a system username specified at ./configure time. So you would need to allow that user to write to /opt/local/var/run/ (or better yet, a NUT-specific subdirectory like /opt/local/var/run/nut).
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>> The access denied is it due to wrong username/password?
>  
> Yes. Bear in mind that these are NUT users defined in etc/upsd.users, not system usernames.
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>>> My Mac has a local UPS, so I haven't looked into whether upsmon properly reconnects after sleep.
>>> 
>>>> 2. When I have done a live test, the Master Rasp never intercepted any FLAG from UPS and UPS just died but halting just RASP-1 properly (connected via cable). iMac ignored the whole procedure.
>>> 
>>> You didn't mention which version of NUT you are using, but for recent versions, both the blazer_usb and nutdrv_qx drivers can be configured to generate their own LB signal based on runtime or percent charge. See the documentation for 'ignorelb' in ups.conf.
>> Thanks. I'm running Network UPS Tools upsmon 2.6.5-Unversioned directory 
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> From MacPorts?
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