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["Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On Wednesday, 2008-11-19 at 21:14 -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote:

> > The init script starts three things:
> >
> >    upsdrvctl  (message "Starting NUT UPS drivers     failed")
> >    upsd       (Starting NUT UPS server     failed)
> >    upsmon     (Starting NUT UPS monitor    failed)
> >
> > As the driver fails, the other two will fail too, so worrying about their
> > permissions is not important yet. My main problem is the driver part, and I
> > think it is also a permission problem.
>
> post ups.conf, upsd.conf and upsd.users

ups.conf:

[myups]
#       "BELKIN Active Battery Backup"
        driver = megatec_usb -DDD
        port = auto
        desc = "Local UPS"
#       user = root


the other two are not used. As I say, if the driver fails to load, the 
script exits and does not start the daemon, so it does not 
matter how it is configured.

I know this for sure, I have done strace on it. And I inserted an "exit" 
instruction on the script to make absolutely sure the daemon does not 
attempt to start.


The problem is that megatec_usb can not access the USB if run as user. And 
the driver controller has harcoded to run it as user. Not configurable.

Yes, I tried "run_as = root", and "... -u root". No difference.


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Cheers,
       Carlos E. R.
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