--- On Fri, 5/16/08, Neil Bothwick <neil@(protected):

> From: Neil Bothwick <neil@(protected)>
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ttyS0 conflict was UPS recommendation
> To: gentoo-user@(protected)
> Date: Friday, May 16, 2008, 3:21 PM
> On Fri, 16 May 2008 14:57:24 -0700 (PDT), maxim wexler
> wrote:
>
> > > Thanks for your exhaustive replies. I've
> decided to go
> > > for the APC ES-350 for seventy bucks at the local
> Staples.
>
> > But when I try dialup I get this:
> >
> > Device ttyS0 is blocked by PID 3981
> >
> > which turns out is apcupsd. So I have to kill it
> before I can dial out.
> > Sure enough, in the conf file there is this: DEVICE
> /dev/ttyS0.
>
> Is this a serial or USB model? My APC CS 650 uses USB and

USB

> the DEVICE
> entry in the config file is just "DEVICE" as per
> the comments in the file
> and the man page.

There are comments for everything else except the line:

DEVICE /dev/ttyS0

But that would seem to conflict with the line further up the page:

UPSCABLE usb

But yeah, the manual says leave DEVICE blank for USB-connected units. I'll try that. Thanks.

mw


   
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