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
>
>
> JonB
>
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Received on Mon Nov 12 13:42:50 2007