APC Backup

[Graeme Nichols]

Ernie Bisson, MIT Bates Linear Accelerator wrote:

>>>Hi Graeme.
>>>
>>>I just got a Back-UPS ES Series 500 USB for evaluation. Don't know if you care
>>>to use software other than nut, but I found RPM's at http://www.apcupsd.com
>>>for "apcupsd" daemon. They have source and well as prebuilt for RH7, RH8, RH9,
>>>FC3, and RHEL3. The prebuilt ones worked for RH9 as far as I could tell. I
>>>actually wanted it for an RH7.3 system, but was having problems until today.
>>>There were no /dev/usb/hiddev devices on the system. Once I created them, the
>>>prebuilt RPM worked fine.
>>>
>>>Ernie
>>> 
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>Hello Ernie, thank you very much indeed. I have downloaded the FC3 rpm 
>>and the pdf docos.  I have a /dev/hiddev0 device, no /dev/usb dir at all 
>>and I had the dickens of a problem trying to find the name of the 
>>required usb device. I am not a techie but rather a competent everyday 
>>user. How does one create a device?
>>    
>>
>
>Hi Graeme.
>
>I believe it only matters that the hiddev?? devices exist somewhere in the
>/dev heirarchy. Since I didn't have any at all, I ran a script provided with
>apcupsd software called /etc/apcupsd/make-hiddev. This script actually creates
>them in /dev/usb/hid. I mentioned /dev/usb in my earlier message because I
>thought that may have been a more standard location for the files from other
>things I had read. Anyway, once you startup the software you should see
>messages similar to the following in /var/log/messages,
>
>  May 13 11:32:39 cutlass apcupsd: apcupsd startup succeeded
>  May 13 11:32:40 cutlass apcupsd[1827]: NIS server startup succeeded
>  May 13 11:32:40 cutlass apcupsd[1823]: apcupsd 3.10.17 (18 March 2005)
>                                         redhat startup succeeded
>  
>
Hello Ernie, just a note to let you know that I have it all up and 
running OK. It is much simpler to set up than nut. For all those who 
have APC UPSs this is the preferred utility over nut I believe. Thanks 
again for pointing me in the right direction.

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Kind regards,

Graeme.