Using CopyGenerator does not work. It will accept an absolute path, but it
then tries to copy the file *over itself* - the absolute path is used as
source *and* destination. Here is the error listing from journalctl:
Jul 31 19:05:25 bookwormpi3b weewxd[365083]: ERROR weewx.reportengine:
Caught unrecoverable exception in generator
'weewx.reportengine.CopyGenerator'
Jul 31 19:05:25 bookwormpi3b weewxd[365083]: ERROR weewx.reportengine:
**** '/var/www/html/weewx3/realtime.txt' and
'/var/www/html/weewx3/realtime.txt' are the same file
Jul 31 19:05:25 bookwormpi3b weewxd[365083]: ERROR weewx.reportengine:
**** Traceback (most recent call last):
Jul 31 19:05:25 bookwormpi3b weewxd[365083]: ERROR weewx.reportengine:
**** File
"/home/pi/weewx-venv/lib/python3.11/site-packages/weewx/reportengine.py",
line 248, in run
Jul 31 19:05:25 bookwormpi3b weewxd[365083]: ERROR weewx.reportengine:
**** obj.start()
Jul 31 19:05:25 bookwormpi3b weewxd[365083]: ERROR weewx.reportengine:
**** File
"/home/pi/weewx-venv/lib/python3.11/site-packages/weewx/reportengine.py",
line 465, in start
Jul 31 19:05:25 bookwormpi3b weewxd[365083]: ERROR weewx.reportengine:
**** self.run()
Jul 31 19:05:25 bookwormpi3b weewxd[365083]: ERROR weewx.reportengine:
**** File
"/home/pi/weewx-venv/lib/python3.11/site-packages/weewx/reportengine.py",
line 621, in run
Jul 31 19:05:25 bookwormpi3b weewxd[365083]: ERROR weewx.reportengine:
**** ncopy += weeutil.weeutil.deep_copy_path(path, html_dest_dir)
Jul 31 19:05:25 bookwormpi3b weewxd[365083]: ERROR weewx.reportengine:
**** ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Jul 31 19:05:25 bookwormpi3b weewxd[365083]: ERROR weewx.reportengine:
**** File
"/home/pi/weewx-venv/lib/python3.11/site-packages/weeutil/weeutil.py", line
1811, in deep_copy_path
Jul 31 19:05:25 bookwormpi3b weewxd[365083]: ERROR weewx.reportengine:
**** shutil.copy(path, d)
Jul 31 19:05:25 bookwormpi3b weewxd[365083]: ERROR weewx.reportengine:
**** File "/usr/lib/python3.11/shutil.py", line 419, in copy
Jul 31 19:05:25 bookwormpi3b weewxd[365083]: ERROR weewx.reportengine:
**** copyfile(src, dst, follow_symlinks=follow_symlinks)
Jul 31 19:05:25 bookwormpi3b weewxd[365083]: ERROR weewx.reportengine:
**** File "/usr/lib/python3.11/shutil.py", line 236, in copyfile
Jul 31 19:05:25 bookwormpi3b weewxd[365083]: ERROR weewx.reportengine:
**** raise SameFileError("{!r} and {!r} are the same
file".format(src, dst))
Jul 31 19:05:25 bookwormpi3b weewxd[365083]: ERROR weewx.reportengine:
**** shutil.SameFileError: '/var/www/html/weewx3/realtime.txt' and
'/var/www/html/weewx3/realtime.txt' are the same file
Jul 31 19:05:25 bookwormpi3b weewxd[365083]: ERROR weewx.reportengine:
**** Generator terminated
On Thursday, July 31, 2025 at 3:48:15 PM UTC-4 Tom Keffer wrote:
> I'm not sure if this answers your question, but I don't see why the files
> listed under copy_once
> <https://www.weewx.com/docs/5.1/reference/skin-options/copygenerator/?h=#copy_once>
>
> can't include an absolute path.
>
> For your second question, it's impossible to say without a log. Set
> debug=2 (sic), restart weewxd, post the log through the first FTP session.
>
> -tk
>
> On Thu, Jul 31, 2025 at 12:37 PM 'Peter Fletcher' via weewx-development <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Also, the attempted FTP of the file to the additional site doesn't seem
>> to be working, even though weewx is not reporting an error on the FTP.
>
>
>>
>> On Thursday, July 31, 2025 at 3:19:53 PM UTC-4 Peter Fletcher wrote:
>>
>>> Is there a 'built-in' way of copying the latest version of an external
>>> file (which is actually in a different report output folder but could be
>>> anywhere else on the system that is running weewx) into a specific report
>>> output folder at every reporting cycle. I know that you can specify that
>>> skin files be (re-)copied over at each cycle but this is not what I want to
>>> do. The file in question is actually the Cumulus current weather data text
>>> file, which I currently have being FTPed to one destination and would like
>>> to add to the site files being FTPed to a different destination. I am
>>> currently using an additional FTP stanza to send the Cumulus file to the
>>> second site, but this seems clumsy.
>>
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