* David C. Rankin
Breakthrough! "User *upsd* must be in group *uucp*". upsd starts fine with the "rcupsd" init script after that. You can try with port=auto, but if you have any problems use mknod to create /dev/hiddev0:
cd /dev mknod /dev/hiddev0 c 180 96 chown :uucp hiddev0 chmod 0664 hiddev0
Give it a shot!
21:29 wahoo:~ # ll /dev/hiddev0 crw-rw-r-- 1 root uucp 180, 96 Jun 27 21:28 /dev/hiddev0 21:29 wahoo:~ # groups pat pat : users audio cdrom privoxy public uucp video 21:29 wahoo:~ # upscmd myups@localhost test.panel.start Username (root): Password: Instant command failed: Access denied but don't understand the need to join uucp when issuing the cmd as root ??? -- Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA HOG # US1244711 http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://counter.li.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org