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On Fri, 16 May 2008 14:57:24 -0700 (PDT), maxim wexler wrote: |
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> > Thanks for your exhaustive replies. I've decided to go |
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> > for the APC ES-350 for seventy bucks at the local Staples. |
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> But when I try dialup I get this: |
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> Device ttyS0 is blocked by PID 3981 |
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> which turns out is apcupsd. So I have to kill it before I can dial out. |
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> Sure enough, in the conf file there is this: DEVICE /dev/ttyS0. |
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Is this a serial or USB model? My APC CS 650 uses USB and the DEVICE |
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entry in the config file is just "DEVICE" as per the comments in the file |
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and the man page. |
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If it is a serial device, then you clearly cannot have two devices |
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plugged into the same post, so one of them must be ttyS1 or higher. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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WinErr 002: No Error - Yet |
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