On Friday, 27 April 2018 17:19:42 UTC+2, vince wrote: > On Friday, April 27, 2018 at 8:15:55 AM UTC-7, Stuart Smith wrote: > bought a raspberry pi 3, came with noobs on the sd card, installed raspbian > from here. > followed the instructions on installing weewx at www.weewx.com/docs/debian.htm > configured apt, no problem > installed weewx, no problem > step 3 is to check the syslog for message from weewx, there are none > whatsoever...the only activity in the log is pasted below. > can anyone pleeeeeeaase help? I've looked through the wiki and searched this > group but found nothing of help, feel like a complete idiot! > P.S. cannot edit the weewx.conf either, I can open it, tweek it but cannot > save it, tells me it cannot open the file to overwrite it. > > > > > > > You're on a pi, so you are likely running as user 'pi' which has no > permissions to write to root-owned files. > Try using "sudo" ala "sudo your_command_here" > > > If you're a new Linux user completely, definitely get yourself some online > Linux training for the basics. >
Yup, been using the sudo command...but why is weewx not reporting? Surely my root permission has no bearing on this? P.s. thanks for the reply -- 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.
