From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 Description of problem: The nut-client-1.2.0-6 package installs all configuration files in /etc/ups with uid/gid 'root.root' and '-rw-------' permissions. With these permissions the nut package components running under 'nut' uid can't read files /etc/ups/ups.conf and /etc/ups/upssched.conf. /etc/ups/ups.conf needs for UPS driver if the preferable configuration method (the '-a' option) is used. Because the "old" method (full parameter specification in the command line) is currently used by RedHat 9 installation, wrong permissions for /etc/ups/ups.conf are not essential. But it is impossible to set up the "early shutdown" (on timer, not on "low battery" signal) without access to /etc/ups/upssched.conf. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): nut-client-1.2.0-6 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install nut and nut-client 2. Try to setup early shutdown as it is described in /usr/share/doc/nut-1.2.0/docs/upssched.txt or/and configure you UPS driver with '-a' flag and the corresponding section in /etc/ups/ups.conf 3. service ups start Actual Results: There are error messages in the system log, scheduled shutdown does not work, UPS driver does not started (if '-a' flag used) Expected Results: Normal working Additional info: The discussed files don't contain private information like passwords and IMHO making it world-readable does not break the system security. Sorry, I don't provide exact copy of error messages (I don't want to break my system again), but they are simple and not ambiguous.
it's fixed in 1.4.0-1, which will be available in rawhide. thanks for your report.