From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JxB9L-0005Rx-KE for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 17 May 2008 01:23:51 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 374FBE032F; Sat, 17 May 2008 01:23:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from web31701.mail.mud.yahoo.com (web31701.mail.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.201.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B3022E032F for ; Sat, 17 May 2008 01:23:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 57750 invoked by uid 60001); 17 May 2008 01:23:47 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Reply-To:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Message-ID; b=NQf9j40a1Vs86e03z+bUZ236BP+mTclzrfg0KUVhJ9XzQBVquKvDrmj3Qonz1FPVhhnt8zH/sq8orNbLmwssyU90s4zVRzDy+TeAqC+MiF5H+xi8HlDYYKY/ICHZnPV1iSH4nD2Dbl79Sk6ElKAtc0Pk6rV15EjytBqSmRUTF58=; X-YMail-OSG: L8L7dnIVM1nrmuVzyQUAZDiwcgzKAhHRM_rGHSMQXwcABfaSkpYRHAetsWTn1C1Qo7eZtHTl2csoJkYygWupNLlrbw6ANhbOukKz2Q-- Received: from [64.228.98.122] by web31701.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Fri, 16 May 2008 18:23:46 PDT X-Mailer: YahooMailWebService/0.7.185 Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 18:23:46 -0700 (PDT) From: maxim wexler Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ttyS0 conflict was UPS recommendation To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <20080516232134.0e7ce426@loonquawl.digimed.co.uk> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-ID: <883560.57725.qm@web31701.mail.mud.yahoo.com> X-Archives-Salt: 9334e98b-98cd-419f-8dfc-9a7307bc3db0 X-Archives-Hash: 892d341cb2a8ba87bd943d3e2ec0a4fd --- On Fri, 5/16/08, Neil Bothwick wrote: > From: Neil Bothwick > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ttyS0 conflict was UPS recommendation > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > 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 -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list