On Saturday, March 2, 2019 at 12:11:25 PM UTC-8, Ashley Gibbon wrote: > > *With the su it is working and recording data now.* > *Should that be needed? * > >> >> Yes - you are on a pi and that generally has a unprivileged user 'pi' as the default. You are trying to run software that expects to run as the privileged user 'root'.
You probably need some Linux training. There are a variety of free self-paced things available on sites like edx.org that should take just a few hours to get you enough info to get your feet wet and keep your blood pressure low. Spend a few hours getting the basics down some day it's convenient for you. You'll be glad you did. -- 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.