[Nut-upsuser] Problem installing NUT on 16.04

[Jack McGee]

On 12/10/2016 08:37 AM, Jack McGee wrote:
> On 12/10/2016 08:10 AM, Jack McGee wrote:
>> e, the path of least resistance would be to listen on 0.0.0.0 and use 
>> a firewall rule to limit connections to that subnet.
>>
>>
>> sorry, after reboot I started seeing this error in terminal:
>>
>> Broadcast message from nut at amethi (somewhere) (Sat Dec 10 08:05:01 
>> 2016):
>>
>> UPS CyberUPS1 at localhost is unavailable
>>
>>
>> I had a similar issue I think when Ubuntu moved to SystemD with 
>> Mythtv not waiting to start until network was up and then erroring.  
>> I will see if I can recall what I did to fix that and apply it to NUT 
>> and see if that fixes it.
>
> Restart of nut-server after boot, fixes it:
>
> mythuser at amethi:~$ sudo systemctl status nut-server.service
> [sudo] password for mythuser:
> ● nut-server.service - LSB: Network UPS Tools initscript
>    Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/nut-server; bad; vendor preset: enabled)
>    Active: active (running) since Sat 2016-12-10 08:35:17 CST; 17s ago
>      Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)
>   Process: 16600 ExecStop=/etc/init.d/nut-server stop (code=exited, 
> status=0/SUCCESS)
>   Process: 16643 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/nut-server start (code=exited, 
> status=0/SUCCESS)
>    CGroup: /system.slice/nut-server.service
>            ├─16651 /lib/nut/usbhid-ups -a CyberUPS1
>            └─16653 /lib/nut/upsd
>
> Dec 10 08:35:17 amethi nut-server[16643]:  * Starting NUT - power 
> devices information server and drivers
> Dec 10 08:35:17 amethi usbhid-ups[16651]: Startup successful
> Dec 10 08:35:17 amethi upsd[16652]: listening on 192.168.0.105 port 3493
> Dec 10 08:35:17 amethi upsd[16652]: listening on 127.0.0.1 port 3493
> Dec 10 08:35:17 amethi upsd[16652]: Connected to UPS [CyberUPS1]: 
> usbhid-ups-CyberUPS1
> Dec 10 08:35:17 amethi upsd[16653]: Startup successful
> Dec 10 08:35:17 amethi nut-server[16643]:    ...done.
> Dec 10 08:35:17 amethi systemd[1]: Started LSB: Network UPS Tools 
> initscript.
> Dec 10 08:35:21 amethi upsd[16653]: User upsmon at 192.168.0.106 logged 
> into UPS [CyberUPS1]
> Dec 10 08:35:21 amethi upsd[16653]: User upsmon at 127.0.0.1 logged into 
> UPS [CyberUPS1]

I put 0.0.0.0 in and took out 192.168.0.105 and on restart it works.  
The nut-server runs, and nut-client on another machine can reach it.

This is not opened up to outside world so I should be OK until I figure 
out how to delay it until network is up.
thanks.