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From: "Kory Hamzeh" <kory@avatar.com>
To: "Mike Meyer" <mwm@mired.org>
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Subject: RE: Problems with nut 0.44.3
Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 10:33:29 -0700
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Meyer [mailto:mwm@mired.org]
>
> Kory Hamzeh <kory@avatar.com> types:
> > I'm running nut 0.44.3 on RELEASE-4.3. When I try to start the APC Smart
> > monitor demon, I get the following error:
> >
> > ns1# /usr/local/libexec/nut/apcsmart /dev/cuaa1
> > Network UPS Tools - APC Smart protocol driver 0.54 (0.44.3)
> > apcsmart: Can't uu_lock cuaa1: creat error: Permission denied
>
> UUCP needs write permissions on /var/spool/lock for uulock to
> work. You might also check to see if that device is already locked -
> there'll be a file in that directory that has the PID of the locking
> process in it. See the uu_lock man page for details.
>
> 	<mike

Thanks Mike, that was the problem. apcsmart now starts up. Of course now I
have to figure out why it won't detect the UPS and work through all of the
cable goofy-ness.

Thanks,
Kory


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