From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 1 8:50:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nebula.anchoragerescue.org (cable-115-7-237-24.anchorageak.net [24.237.7.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBE4537B403 for ; Mon, 1 Oct 2001 08:48:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from there (galaxy.anchoragerescue.org [24.237.7.95]) by nebula.anchoragerescue.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C2E6BE2; Mon, 1 Oct 2001 07:48:51 -0800 (AKDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Beech Rintoul To: "Kory Hamzeh" , Subject: Re: Problems with nut 0.44.3 Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 07:48:51 -0800 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] References: <004d01c14a42$f02a8560$14ce21c7@avatar.com> In-Reply-To: <004d01c14a42$f02a8560$14ce21c7@avatar.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <20011001154851.C2E6BE2@nebula.anchoragerescue.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sunday 30 September 2001 10:33 pm, Kory Hamzeh wrote: > I'm running nut 0.44.3 on RELEASE-4.3. When I try to start the APC Smart > monitor demon, I get the following error: > > ns1# /usr/local/libexec/nut/apcsmart /dev/cuaa1 > Network UPS Tools - APC Smart protocol driver 0.54 (0.44.3) > apcsmart: Can't uu_lock cuaa1: creat error: Permission denied > > Browsing the archives it was states that the file > /var/state/ups/apcsmart-cuaa1 must exist and it must be writeable by UUCP > (and it is). > > The /dev/cuaa1 device has permissions set to 666. > > What else could it be? The nut docs states that the drivers give up root > before they open the devices. It did not state what user they run as at > that point. Anyway, since the permissions are 666 on cuaa1 and 777 on > apcsmart-cuaa1, I suspect that that it not the problem. > > Thanks, > Kory > > I'm having the same problems trying to get my Back-Ups UPS working. I talked with APC and they said even though unix/linux isn't "officially" supported it should work with cable #940-0023. I ordered that cable and I'll post my results when it arrives. Beech -- Micro$oft: "Where can we make you go today?" ------------------------------------------------------------------- Beech Rintoul - IT Manager - Instructor - akbeech@anchoragerescue.org /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Anchorage Gospel Rescue Mission \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | P.O. Box 230510 X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Anchorage, AK 99523-0510 / \ ----------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message