Re: [opensuse] Attempting (and failing) to use my UPS

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday, 2008-11-18 at 21:09 -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote:

* Carlos E. R. [11-18-08 20:19]:

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I have tried "RUN_AS_USER root" in upsmon.conf to no avail. If I use:

I have (in upsmon.conf) RUN_AS_USER upsd MONITOR myups@localhost 1 upsd password master

same.

in upsd.users

just: [upsd] password = 123456 allowfrom = localhost upsmon master currently. I commented out some entries. Till the driver runs, that part is secondary.

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

I don't believe the "user =" line is allowed here. Oops, man ups.conf allows it as optional. But you have to define them in upsd.users.

Yep.

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but the driver complains it does not recognise the "user" option. Currently I have this startup line:

$UPSDRVCTL_BIN -u root start || rc_failed

for you looks like $UPSDRVCTL_BIN = /usr/lib/ups/driver/belkin

No, I have a line before that: echo "User: "$UPSD_USER " Owner: " $UPS_OWNER " Port: " $PORT " Driver controller: "$UPSDRVCTL_BIN that prints me the vars, and they are: nimrodel:~ # time rcupsd start User: upsd Owner: upsd:root Port: auto Driver: /usr/lib/ups/driver/upsdrvctl The driver controller runs as root, I think. The daemon runs as "upsd", but the driver itself is doubtfull. i think it runs as upsd too..

for me: $UPSDRVCTL_BIN = /usr/lib/ups/driver/newhidups

ps aux | grep ups /usr/lib/ups/driver/newhidups -a myups

Thats the driver, not the controller. They are two processes.

have you tried looking at the output of: $UPSDRVCTL_BIN -a myupsd -DDDD

That would be /usr/lib/ups/driver/upsdrvctl -a myupsd -DDDD which fails to run. It would be the one I posted on my previous email, /usr/lib/ups/driver/megatec_usb -DDDD -a myups which does indeed work. But started from the controller, as the script does, it fails.

there is a lot of information there

Yes, I saw it. But nothing that helps starting the daemon: the daemon runs as user, and thus is denied access to the USB. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkkjg0wACgkQtTMYHG2NR9UTlwCgmEeigkUvbTtHpQGJhgd/ZAH8 KJIAmwZouoDrjax0UQbWCcWuI39xD+DL =GdIY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org