[Nut-upsuser] nut upset after Oops

[Udo van den Heuvel]

Charles Lepple wrote:
> On 3/6/07, Udo van den Heuvel <udovdh at xs4all.nl> wrote:
>> > What's the cause for this vague message?
>> > The Megatec starts OK, then the upsd cannot connect to the ups
>> (megatec...).
>>
>> If I start the daemons manually, following the info at
>> http://www.networkupstools.org/doc/2.0.1/INSTALL.html The programs start
>> OK, no error there.
>> How can I automate this? Why don't the scripts work OK?
> 
> What does the config file in /etc/default/nut (or something) say? I
> think you have to change the driver to something like "upsdrvctl" or
> something else non-obvious.

This remark was spot on.
After changing MODEL in /etc/sysconfig/ups to upsdrvctl stuff started to
work OK with just a simple `service ups start`.

Thanks!

(This is on Fedora core 6)