Oh - you answered earlier so I thought you were interested in more info. Not a problem....sorry...
On Friday, January 22, 2021 at 4:20:08 PM UTC-8 gjr80 wrote: > On Saturday, 23 January 2021 at 08:02:27 UTC+10 vince wrote: > >> Gary - I would agree that 'stop' does not work on a debian10 system but >> 'start' works fine. Same problem exists regardless of whether you use the >> init.d file directly or if you use systemctl to let systemd control the >> processes. Start works. Stop silently does nothing. Nothing I could see >> in the logs to indicate that it even tried to shut the processes down. >> >> - One other tidbit is that you need to be consistent re: which way >> you try to control the processes. On a debian10 system using a dpkg >> install, bootups will use systemd to run the legacy init.d file start >> sequence. If you 'also' manually start via init.d commands using the >> pre-systemd instructions on the wiki you'll get 'two' sets of processes >> running, neither knowing the other exists. But regardless, I can't find >> an >> incantation of systemctl or the init.d commands that actually tries to >> stop >> the processes. >> >> >> - Lastly, if you manually kill the processes then use systemctl to >> try to (re)start them, it reports failure but it actually worked and the >> multiple weewx processes indeed run. Same for init.d - if you kill the >> processes and run the init.d manually to start, it silently returns >> (having >> succeeded) but then if you run ./init.d/weewx status it reports the >> processes are not running (although they 'are'). Speculate that's >> something to do with the old pid files init.d files typically use, but I >> didn't dig further into that. >> >> Bottom line - I think the weewx-multi thing needs some refactoring for >> the systemd world. Uncertain why exactly a debian10 system uses an init.d >> file for weewx anyway (for a dpkg installation) but it might just be a >> timing thing for when systemd started to take over the world. >> > > Not sure why this aimed at me, I have never had a problem with the > weewx-multi script under Raspbian Stretch or Buster, > start/stop/restart/reload all work as expected. Though I only use setup.py > installs. I don't have the skills to debug further. > > Gary > -- 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. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/e2378b24-b31d-40cd-beb9-c58148dfb6c6n%40googlegroups.com.
