NUT on 2.0 Beta1 = need to symlink

jimp

Someone may just need to do a build of nut for pfSense 2.0/FreeBSD 8 and change the 2.0 package to use it. That is the best way to move forward with this. I'm not sure who is maintaining the nut package these days.

m4rcu5

Thank you for the reply,
I hope the maintainer will bring a fix for this.
NUT is a pretty important package for me, and worked fine on the FreeBSD 7 snapshots.
Unfortunately i cant find the old snapshots anymore.

m4rcu5

I'm currently trying to do a makeshift fix on my machine to get NUT up and running.

So far i had to do:

Manually change 'port=auto' to 'port=/dev/ttyu0' in '/usr/local/etc/nut/ups.conf'
Symlink '/lib/libutil.so.8' to '/lib/libutil.so.7'
Symlink '/usr/lib/libssl.so.6 to '/usr/lib/libssl.so.5'
Symlink '/lib/libcrypto.so6' to '/lib/libcrypto.so.5'

This works.

I hope with these findings one of the developers can convert it into a patch so we can all use it :-)

Kind regards, Marcus

jimp

No need to patch. As I said earlier, the best way is to recompile nut as a native version for FreeBSD 8 so it will work on pfSense 2.0.

jimp

There should be a version of nut compiled for FreeBSD 8 now in the 2.0 packages.

See here: https://rcs.pfsense.org/projects/pfsense-packages/repos/mainline/commits/c5b12187b845833cc77169963cecabc9b1980f1c

m4rcu5

@jimp:

There should be a version of nut compiled for FreeBSD 8 now in the 2.0 packages.

See here: https://rcs.pfsense.org/projects/pfsense-packages/repos/mainline/commits/c5b12187b845833cc77169963cecabc9b1980f1c

Thank you for letting me know!

It works without symlinking now :-) But i still need to set the port to /dev/ttyu0 because auto is not valid device.


# ./nut.sh start
starting apcsmart
Network UPS Tools - UPS driver controller 2.4.1
Network UPS Tools - APC Smart protocol driver 2.00 (2.4.1)
APC command table version 2.0

Unable to open auto: No such file or directory

Things to try:

 - Check 'port=' in ups.conf

 - Check owner/permissions of all parts of path

Fatal error: unusable configuration
Driver failed to start (exit status=1)
apcsmart failed to start

I also get some errors about deprecated configs:


# ./nut.sh start
starting apcsmart
Network UPS Tools - UPS driver controller 2.4.1
Network UPS Tools - APC Smart protocol driver 2.00 (2.4.1)
APC command table version 2.0
Detected Smart-UPS 2200 RM XL [JS0603020872] on /dev/ttyu0
starting upsd
Network UPS Tools upsd 2.4.1
ACL in upsd.conf is no longer supported - switch to LISTEN
ACL in upsd.conf is no longer supported - switch to LISTEN
ACL in upsd.conf is no longer supported - switch to LISTEN
ACCEPT in upsd.conf is no longer supported - switch to LISTEN
ACCEPT in upsd.conf is no longer supported - switch to LISTEN
REJECT in upsd.conf is no longer supported - switch to LISTEN
listening on 127.0.0.1 port 3493
listening on ::1 port 3493
Connected to UPS [APC_SmartUPS_2200]: apcsmart-APC_SmartUPS_2200
allowfrom in upsd.users is no longer used
allowfrom in upsd.users is no longer used
starting upsmon
Network UPS Tools upsmon 2.4.1
UPS: APC_SmartUPS_2200@localhost (master) (power value 1)
Using power down flag file /etc/killpower

Greets, Marcus

jimp

Looks like it may need some attention from someone with more knowledge about NUT's config file format then, it must have had some substantial changes from 2.2.x to 2.4.x.

I could probably figure it out, but I don't have a (working) UPS around that is capable of talking to a PC for testing.

cmb

I opened a ticket, but doubt it will get fixed unless someone can provide a patch. It's probably not all that difficult to fix for someone with the equipment to mess around with it. (I'm in the same situation as jim-p, nothing to use it with)
http://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/show/310

I'll be glad to commit a fix if someone can offer one.

m4rcu5

I have an UPS on with i can test, but unfortunately im not really sure how the whole pfsense interfaces are stuck together, i seem to find some files in /etc. Maybe i have to look into the docs.
For those who do not have an ups, NUT has an Dummy-UPS, you can find more information here: http://new.networkupstools.org/man/dummy-ups.html

If there is something i can do to help, let me know

cmb

check out the .inc file(s) in /usr/local/pkg, you may be able to figure out something from that.

m4rcu5

Ok, a few things i can figure out:

FREEBSD 8 does not call the ports SIO like they look for here:

$handle = popen('dmesg | grep \'^sio[0-9]: type\'','r');

But they are called UART


uart0: <16550 or compatible> port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on acpi0
uart0: [FILTER]

Also they are not /dev/ttyd like here:

$values[] = '/dev/ttyd'.$line{3};

But they are /dev/ttyu

43 crw-------   1 root   wheel       0,  43 Jan 18 20:10 ttyu0

They chnaged the config file a lot from 2.2.x to 2.4.x, but did not update the docs.
I have found some usefull info on: http://blog.shadypixel.com/monitoring-a-ups-with-nut-on-debian-or-ubuntu-linux/

Andy says:
July 30, 2009 at 3:03 AM

Got it working again:

Replace

/etc/nut/upsd.conf

ACL all 0.0.0.0/0
ACL localhost 127.0.0.1/32
ACCEPT localhost
REJECT all

with

/etc/nut/upsd.conf

LISTEN 127.0.0.1
LISTEN 10.10.10.1 (use the IP address of any remote slave devices)

/etc/nut/upsd.users

[local_mon]
password = PASSWORD_HERE

allowfrom = localhost

upsmon master

Comment out allowfrom

That should do the trick

Although i cannot make the changes myself, i hope to be some kind of a help ;-)

Greets

m4rcu5

Dear Development team,

I would like to ask if there is any progress on the NUT package. I really really like the package :-).
I still try it once a week to see if it has changed and maybe working. But up to now i have no luck.

I you need help testing i would be glad to help.