On 11/8/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Charles Lepple</b> <<a href="mailto:clepple@gmail.com">clepple@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>genericups does not have very many ways to fail. What if you try<br>starting the driver directly, such as:<br><br> /lib/nut/genericups -a ups_name</blockquote><div><br>Hi,<br>When I do:<br><br>radius1:/etc/nut# /lib/nut/genericups -a ups_name
<br>Network UPS Tools - Generic UPS driver 1.30 (2.0.1)<br>No upstype set - see help text / man page!<br><br><br>radius1:/etc/nut# /lib/nut/genericups upstype=7 -a ups_name<br>Network UPS Tools - Generic UPS driver 1.30 (
2.0.1)<br>No upstype set - see help text / man page!<br><br>My ups.conf looks like this:<br><br>radius1:/etc/nut# cat ups.conf<br># Network UPS Tools: example ups.conf<br>#<br>user = nut<br><br>[ups_name]<br> driver = genericups upstype=7
<br> port = /dev/ttyS0<br> desc = "Sweex 1000VA UPS"<br><br><br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
You can also check the system logs for error messages.<br><br><br></blockquote></div><br>I don't get any messages in syslog from trying this.<br>I received data stale and/or connection problems when I tried other drivers before.
<br>Maybe it's time to start looking out for another ups? <br>I leave for holidays on 20/11 and I want this of my back by that time.<br><br><br>Sincerely, Yves<br>