Nut - Compiled user name

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Running Nut 2.8.4_15 on IPFire 2.29 (x86-64) core 203 and getting errors shown in the .var/log/messages (see below)

I’m not sure whats causing the “NOTIFY..” problems but its the upsmon “OS user = not found”

I set the user “RUN_AS_USER = nutmon” in the upsmon.conf as I created a nutmon account as per the add docs. I’ve also tried creating accounts as “nut” and even “OS” but still get the error.

So before I contact the Nut mailing list, can I ask what was the pakfire nut add-on build flags ?, maybe the user name was “hard wired” when built/compiled ?

Thanks - Leigh

/var/log/messages - last line

Aug 6 20:14:29 ipfire usbhid-ups[2154]: using ‘battery.charge’ to set battery low state
Aug 6 20:14:29 ipfire usbhid-ups[2154]: using ‘battery.runtime’ to set battery low state
Aug 6 20:14:29 ipfire usbhid-ups[2154]: Listening on socket /var/state/ups/usbhid-ups-UPS1400
Aug 6 20:14:29 ipfire usbhid-ups[2158]: Startup successful
Aug 6 20:14:29 ipfire usbhid-ups[2158]: upsnotify: notify about state NOTIFY_STATE_READY_WITH_PID with libsystemd: was requested, but not running as a service unit now, will not spam more about it
Aug 6 20:14:29 ipfire usbhid-ups[2158]: upsnotify: failed to notify about state NOTIFY_STATE_READY_WITH_PID: no notification tech defined, will not spam more about it
Aug 6 20:14:29 ipfire usbhid-ups[2158]: upsnotify: logged the systemd watchdog situation once, will not spam more about it
Aug 6 20:14:29 ipfire upsd[2159]: listening on 0.0.0.0 port 3493
Aug 6 20:14:29 ipfire upsd[2159]: Connected to UPS [UPS1400]: usbhid-ups-UPS1400
Aug 6 20:14:29 ipfire upsd[2159]: Found 1 UPS defined in ups.conf
Aug 6 20:14:29 ipfire usbhid-ups[2158]: sock_connect: enabling asynchronous mode (auto)
Aug 6 20:14:29 ipfire upsd[2160]: Startup successful
Aug 6 20:14:29 ipfire upsd[2160]: upsnotify: notify about state NOTIFY_STATE_READY_WITH_PID with libsystemd: was requested, but not running as a service unit now, will not spam more about it
Aug 6 20:14:29 ipfire upsd[2160]: upsnotify: failed to notify about state NOTIFY_STATE_READY_WITH_PID: no notification tech defined, will not spam more about it
Aug 6 20:14:29 ipfire upsd[2160]: upsnotify: logged the systemd watchdog situation once, will not spam more about it
Aug 6 20:14:29 ipfire upsmon[2162]: Startup successful
Aug 6 20:14:29 ipfire upsmon[2162]: OS user = not found

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Hall @lsd_87

Welcome to the IPFire community.

The build configure file has the following options

./configure \
				--prefix=/usr \
				--sysconfdir=/etc/nut \
				--with-usb \
				--with-user=root \
				--with-group=nut \
				--with-wrap=no \
				--with-udev-dir=/etc/udev \
				--disable-static \
				--without-docs \
				--with-dev

so the user is set as root and the group as nut.

The plan is to change the user to nut for future updates.

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Thanks for the quick reply

Tried RUN_AS_USER = root and still get the user not found.

(Reboot of whole system just to make sure)

Problem must be somewhere else

Aug 7 16:04:25 ipfire upsd[2207]: listening on 0.0.0.0 port 3493
Aug 7 16:04:25 ipfire upsd[2207]: Can’t connect to UPS [UPS1400] (/var/state/ups/usbhid-ups-UPS1400): Connection refused
Aug 7 16:04:25 ipfire upsd[2207]: Found 1 UPS defined in ups.conf
Aug 7 16:04:25 ipfire upsd[2208]: Startup successful
Aug 7 16:04:25 ipfire upsd[2208]: upsnotify: notify about state NOTIFY_STATE_READY_WITH_PID with libsystemd: was requested, but not running as a service unit now, will not spam more about it
Aug 7 16:04:25 ipfire upsd[2208]: upsnotify: failed to notify about state NOTIFY_STATE_READY_WITH_PID: no notification tech defined, will not spam more about it
Aug 7 16:04:25 ipfire upsd[2208]: upsnotify: logged the systemd watchdog situation once, will not spam more about it
Aug 7 16:04:25 ipfire upsmon[2210]: Startup successful
Aug 7 16:04:25 ipfire upsmon[2210]: OS user = not found

4

Unfortunately I don’t currently use nut so can’t help further on this.

5

No problem, thanks for taking the time to help - really appreciated
Will try the nut mailing list next, I have other problem with nut which I think is just config settings.

Leigh