Hi<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2010/9/23 Tim Gomez<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="gmail_quote"><br><div>Hello, </div>
<div>I have been struggling to get the NUT software working with my Arch linux machine.</div>
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</div></blockquote><div><br>this link is broken, and I can't find any network ups tools package in this archive!<br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="gmail_quote"><div></div><div>I have attached a document containing the output of my configuration files. Any help on the matter would be greatly appreciated. <br></div></div></blockquote><div> <br>I removed your attachment since it was of no help and still contained sensible data.<br>
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<div></div><div>[tgomez@STARSCREAM music]$ ls -l /var/state/</div><div>total 4</div><div>drwxrwx--- 2 nut nut 4096 Sep 20 21:30 ups</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>[tgomez@STARSCREAM music]$ upsd -u nut</div>
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Network UPS Tools upsd 2.4.3</div><div>/etc/ups/upsd.conf is world readable</div><div>listening on 127.0.0.1 port 3493</div><div>Can't chdir to /var/state/ups: Permission denied</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>
[tgomez@STARSCREAM music]$ upsmon -u nut</div><div>Network UPS Tools upsmon 2.4.3</div><div>UPS: OMNIVS1500XL@localhost:3493 (master) (power value 1)</div><div>Using power down flag file /etc/killpower</div><div>[tgomez@STARSCREAM music]$</div>
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</blockquote></div><br>you have to launch nut programs (upsd, upsmon, drivers) as root, before they drop privileges for the '-u' provided user name.<br><br>cheers,<br>Arno<br>-- <br>Network UPS Tools (NUT) Project Leader - <a href="http://www.networkupstools.org/" target="_blank">http://www.networkupstools.org/</a><br>
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