[Nut-upsuser] upsmon fails to start

[Charles Lepple]

On Sep 1, 2018, at 2:44 PM, Mick wrote:
> 
> On Saturday, 1 September 2018 17:50:13 BST Charles Lepple wrote:
>> I don’t have the code in front of me at the moment, but my guess is that the
>> config parser stopped parsing at the “#” character. 
> 
> I suspected a rogue character was being interpreted and used `backticks`, 
> 'single quotes' and then "double quotes", but all failed.  I ended up removing 
> the offending # character and it seems to have worked:

I logged an issue to improve the documentation for this:

https://github.com/networkupstools/nut/issues/607

> Is there a particular command I could run to make sure upsmon is working as 
> expected?  A recent battery failure caused the server to crash, but thankfully 
> it didn't corrupt any data.

https://networkupstools.org/docs/man/upsmon.html

"upsmon -c fsd" sends the FSD (forced shutdown) signal to upsd, which should verify that the NUT users and permissions are working.