On Saturday, 28 April 2018 01:52:19 UTC+2, JHoke wrote: > 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...@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+...@googlegroups.com. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > > > > -- > > > > > > > John P. Hoke > jo...@hoke.org > https://hoke.org/john/ > Random Non-Sequiturs & Photography
Wow, thanks John! Will look this lot over as soon as can find another spare hour this weekend and get back to you, 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.
