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- 1. I just upgraded, and …
- 2. My UPS driver now says it’s broken, and won’t start. What now?
- 3. My favorite UPS driver disappeared after an upgrade. What now?
- 4. My UPS driver program won’t work. I’m starting it as root, and root owns the device, so what’s the problem?
- 5. upsc, upsstats, and the other clients say access denied. The device communication port (serial, USB or network) permissions are fine, so what gives?
- 6. I get a not listening on… error from upsd.
- 7. Which UPS should I buy?
- 8. I have an APC Smart-UPS connected with a grey APC serial cable and it won’t work.
- 9. Why doesn’t upsd implement the functionality of upsmon? I have to run THREE programs to monitor my UPS!
- 10. Why isn’t upssched part of upsmon?
- 11. Why doesn’t upsmon send a SIGPWR signal to init so it can deal with power events?
- 12. Why won’t bestups talk to my Best Fortress UPS?
- 13. What’s this about data stale?
- 14. Why do the client programs say Driver not connected when I try to run them?
- 15. Why don’t the pathnames in your documentation match the package I installed?
- 16. Everything works perfectly during the shutdown, and the UPS comes back on, but my system stays off. What’s happening?
- 17. My system has an ATX power supply. It will power off just fine, but it doesn’t turn back on. What can I do to fix this?
- 18. My Mac won’t power back up by itself into Linux after the UPS shuts down. What can I do about this?
- 19. My Mac won’t power back up by itself into Mac OS X after the UPS shuts down. What can I do about this?
- 20. I want to keep the drivers and upsd in their own security domains. How can this be accomplished?
- 21. What’s the point of that security domains concept above?
- 22. How can I make upsmon shut down my system after some fixed interval?
- 23. Why doesn’t upsmon shut down my system? I pulled the plug and nothing happened.
- 24. The CGI programs report access to that host is not authorized — what’s going on?
- 25. upsd is running, so why can’t I connect to it?
- 26. How do you make upsmon reload the config file?
- 27. How do you make upsd reload the config file?
- 28. I just bought a new WhizBang UPS that has a USB connector. How do I monitor it?
- 29. My USB UPS is supported but doesn’t work!
- 30. Why do you not use the Linux kernel HID driver when communicating with USB UPSes?
- 31. I get a message from the kernel that the driver "did not claim interface 0 before use"
- 32. Why doesn’t my package work?
- 33. I can’t run this because there’s no package for it. Why isn’t this in a package yet?
- 34. My UPS is directly connected to an appliance with a limited version of NUT, how can I monitor the UPS from arbitrary clients?
- 35. My networked UPS can’t handle being monitored by dozens of NUT clients
- 36. How can I setup NUT as a proxy (setup a server to forward/relay client data)?
- 37. Why are there two copies of upsmon running?
- 38. I get the following error while building:
make[4]: don't know how to make HP-UX/nut-drvctl.sh. Stop
- 39. I have some problem with some old version …
- 40. I built NUT from Git, and it complains about lots of missing files. What happened?
- 41. Do I have to use a serial connection to monitor the UPS? What about direct network connections (SNMP or otherwise)?
- 42. What happened to the patch I sent?
- 43. I’m not much of a programmer. How can I help?
- 44. I replaced the battery in my APC Smart-UPS and now it thinks the battery is low all the time. How do you fix this?
- 45. My APC UPS keeps reporting OL LB, even after it’s been charging for many hours. What can I do about this?
- 46. upsstats returns temperatures in Celsius. I like Fahrenheit. Where’s the config file to switch it back?
- 47. Why is the mailing list ignoring me?
- 48. Why are you so insistent about sending emails to public mailing lists instead of to individuals?
- 49. If you want mailing list replies to go to the list, why don’t you add a Reply-To: header?
- 50. I found some information about another kind of UPS protocol you don’t support yet, but I don’t know what to do with it. Can you help?
- 51. How can you answer questions to situations that nobody’s encountered yet? Isn’t this a frequently asked questions file?
- 52. My UPS powers up immediately after a power failure instead of waiting for the batteries to recharge!
- 53. My UPS (an APC as it happens) lacks the field "battery.charge.restart" — so how will it know when to restart?
- 54. I’m facing a power race
- 55. The power came back during the shutdown, but before the UPS power off. Now the UPS does not reboot, and my computer stays off. How can I fix that?