Matthew, answers to above: 1) located in /usr/lib/systemd/system I have these two: -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 368 Jan 21 12:18 weewx.service -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 876 Jan 21 12:18 weewx@.service
2) located in xps13-9305:/etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/ I
have the following but no weewx files in /etc/init.d or /etc/sysetmd/system
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 37 Jan 21 12:18 weewx.service ->
/usr/lib/systemd/system/weewx.service
3) xps13-9305:/etc/init.d# grep weewx /etc/passwd
weewx:x:971:960::/home/weewx:/sbin/nologin
4) 60-weewx.rules attached
and thank you for your response.
joev.mi
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On Wednesday, January 24, 2024 at 7:20:47 AM UTC-5 matthew wall wrote:
> On Tuesday, January 23, 2024 at 10:49:43 PM UTC-5 joev...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> My upgrade from 4.10 to 5.0 on my laptop, i.e. not connected to a real
> weather station thus running with the simulator device, has actually gone
> very nicely but for one puzzling report. I thought installing on my laptop
> would better prepare me for installing on my desktop that is actually
> connected to my weather station.
>
> Jan 23 12:06:12 xps13-9305 systemd-udevd[632]:
> /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/60-weewx.rules:4 Unknown group '{weewx}', ignoring.
>
>
> 1) what is User and Group in /usr/lib/systemd/system/weewx.service?
>
> 2) do any of these files exist on your system:
> /etc/systemd/system/weewx.service
> /etc/init.d/weewx
> /etc/init.d/weewx-multi
>
> 3) what do you see when you do this:
> grep weewx /etc/passwd
>
> 4) please post the contents of the file
> /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/60-weewx.rules
>
> installation history:
>
> initially installed on this server running fedora in 2014 via the setup.py
> method. In 2020 I switched to the dnf repo method. When I first ran this
> upgrade to ver 5.0 using dnf upgrade I noticed that I ended up with the
> application using root:root for user:group assignments of directories and
> files. Reading the installation guide some more I noted there was a
> transition to weewx:weewx for those assignments. So I erased the
> application then ran dnf install weewx following along the instructions for
> fedora versions 34+. That seemed to correct the issue of ownership by
> creating the missing user and group.
>
> I don’t observe anything else out of place. My install starts against the
> simulator device, and enters the main loop where it updates the database as
> I would expect.
>
> Question: does the error reported above as in the journal imply a
> mis-configuration? Why is the group weewx identified as unknown?
>
>
> when you upgrade from v4 to v5 using dnf, weewxd should run as root:root.
> this is because the installer will try to respect your previous
> installation, and continue to run with the same user and permissions as the
> previous install.
>
> when you do a new install of v5 using dnf, weewxd should run as
> weewx:weewx.
>
> note that when you 'erase' an installation with dnf, the database, located
> in /var/lib/weewx, will not be deleted. so if you were to run the v5
> installer at this point, even though it is technically a new install,
> because of the /var/lib/weewx with root:root ownership, the 'new' install
> will run as root:root.
>
> if you saw that v5 was running as root:root, that means you must have
> deleted /var/lib/weewx, or changed its permissions. could you verify this?
>
> m
>
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