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<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Ah. For the time being I set
it up to have everything run as root. Once it's working I'll sort out
the permissions issues.<br>
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<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">tripplite_usb is recognizing
the UPS correctly:</font><tt><br>
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Starting tripplite_usb: Network UPS Tools - Tripp Lite OMNIVS and
SMARTPRO driver 0.6 (2.1.0)<br>
Warning: This is an experimental driver.<br>
Some features may not function correctly.<br>
<br>
Detected a UPS: TRIPP LITE/TRIPP LITE SMART1500RMXL2Ua <br>
Using SMARTPRO protocol (3003)<br>
Attached to Tripp Lite SMART1500RMXL2Ua</tt><br>
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But then when upsd starts up it can't seem to communicate with the
tripplite_usb driver:<br>
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</font><tt>Starting upsd: Network UPS Tools upsd 2.1.0<br>
Can't connect to UPS [tripplite] (tripplite): No such file or directory<br>
Synchronizing........ giving up<br>
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The ups.conf file has the following:<br>
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</font><tt>[tripplite]<br>
driver = tripplite_usb<br>
port = auto<br>
desc = "Tripp-Lite 1500RM XL2U"<br>
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</tt><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">This is on Fedora Core 4
if it makes a difference.<br>
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Peter Selinger wrote:
<blockquote cite="mid20060222234904.7B4061084A@sigma.mathstat.dal.ca"
type="cite">
<pre wrap="">Looks like a permissions problem. USB drivers require some special
setting-up. They key is to start by running the driver with "-u root".
I wrote some instructions for APC/newhidups at
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.mathstat.dal.ca/~selinger/ups/backups.html">http://www.mathstat.dal.ca/~selinger/ups/backups.html</a>; they might
help.
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
Greg Gulik <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.gulik.org/greg/">http://www.gulik.org/greg/</a>
greg @ gulik.org
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