[CentOS] Need to test serial port connection

[Lanny Marcus]

On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 5:17 AM, Anne Wilson <cannewilson at googlemail.com> wrote:
> I recently bought a new UPS, and I'm attempting to use nut to  monitor it.
> Following setup instructions everything seemed to go well until it came to
> testing the connection, which failed.
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Possibly something  on one of these URLs will help you;

http://www.networkupstools.org/

http://tldp.org/HOWTO/html_single/UPS-HOWTO/#AEN187

You are trying to use nut and it is failing. Have you tried to use
something else, to verify the connection is working OK?