Answered my own question here - the log file (/var/log/weewx.log) needed to be created manually. I gave root ownership, syslog read-write access, others read-only.
Now it works fine. On Friday, November 25, 2016 at 10:44:53 AM UTC-5, Fraoch wrote: > > Hello: > > I just updated to weewx 3.6.2 today and decided to clean up something > that's been bothering me for a while since I reinstalled my Linux Mint 18. > > I had it set up previously to log weewx entries to a separate log file. > It worked perfectly. > > I set it up today following these instructions: > > https://github.com/weewx/weewx/wiki/logging > > At first I was still getting weewx logs in the syslog, but I followed the > instructions to reorder things in /etc/rsyslog. > > That worked, no more weewx log entries in the syslog, but now no more log > entries for weewx at all. Shouldn't a /var/log/weewx.log file have been > created? I'm not seeing it. Should I create it first? > > Where's weewx logging to now that I've made this change? > > Thank you. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to weewx-user+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
