a silly question - how do you know it is actually running?? how did you 
start it??

there should be at least weewx startup log messages

are you sure the messages are not being diverted to weewx.log??

what command did you use to view the log??



On Friday, 27 April 2018 18:47:36 UTC+3, Stuart Smith wrote:

> 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

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