Ok, a couple things ... your syslog is chucking a bunch of DHCP messages
check ifconfig -all and see if you actually have an IP address next do ps -ef|grep weewx see if you are running weewx at all if you are using sudo vi /etc/weewx/weewx.conf and cannot open the file to write something more fundamental with your pi is going on try doing ls -la /etc/weewx and see what the perms are, but sudo should allow you to open the file AND write it as you are root On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 11:56 AM, Andrew Milner <andrew.s.r.mil...@gmail.com > wrote: > 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 > > -- > 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. > -- John P. Hoke j...@hoke.org https://hoke.org/john <http://hoke.org/john>/ Random Non-Sequiturs & Photography -- 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.
