[Nut-upsdev] newhidups (2.03-pre2) not working with APC Back-UPS

[Peter Selinger]

That seems bizarre. The variable HOME is mentioned nowhere in NUT,
except once in a text string:

$ cd nut/
$ grep HOME * */*
configure:for instance \`--prefix=\$HOME'.

I cannot imagine how it should cause a crash. -- Peter

George Ross wrote:
> 
> > > [root at test7 ~]# newhidups -DD hiddev0 2>&1 | less
> > > *** glibc detected *** double free or corruption (fasttop): 0x0805c450 ***
> 
> Even though you're doing this from a shell, it might be worth checking to 
> see whether HOME is defined in your environment.  I've had some odd similar 
> errors when it wasn't.
> -- 
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