On Wednesday 22 August 2007, Res wrote: >On Wed, 22 Aug 2007, Tim wrote: >> On Tue, 2007-08-21 at 18:49 +0000, tony.chamberlain@xxxxxxxxx wrote: >>> Basically it is telling me it cannot open hosts. >>> An ls shows -rw-r--r-- 2 root root 391 Aug 14 10:59 /etc/hosts which >>> looks like it is readable. Does it also need to be writeable? >> >> I can't see any reason why that file needs to be writeable to other >> users. Are you sure it means the /etc/hosts file, and not some other >> hosts file pertinent just to itself? > >missed most this thread, apcupsd's cgi requires a hosts.conf file >normally in /etc/apcupsd, this governs what "ups" it will monitor >my apolgiies if this has already been covered earlier in the thread. Mmm, hijacking a thread here, sorry. Can you post a typical such file? I don't think that's my problem, but then maybe. The ups shows in an lsusb, but apctest cannot talk to it. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) A pencil with no point needs no eraser. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
