Subject: Re: [vserver] smartest USB UPS setup with vserver and nut?
From: "Michael S. Zick" <mszick@morethan.org>
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 07:42:28 -0600

On Mon November 12 2007 07:33, Jon Bendtsen wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I have 3 UPS'es and only one serial port in my machine. Luckily 2
> of the UPS'ses support a USB connection. I use nut
> 	http://www.networkupstools.org/
> to monitor the UPS'ses.
> 
> The single serial port is no problem getting to work. It's harder with
> the USB ones. How do i smartest get these to work inside a vserver
> guest?
> 
> If i only knew what device to make inside the guests /dev structure,
> but isnt one of the problems with USB that they can change the name?
>

The udev (or older hotplug) runs on the host, look up the rule for that
device in the rules in you distribution - change them to write to the
correct */dev (host view) directory.
Most distributions have the rules structured so you can add a custom
rule rather than alter the default rules.

Mike 
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> JonB
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