... none of that is to say I didn't get something else wrong in the install.
joev.mi _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ On Wednesday, January 24, 2024 at 5:34:18 PM UTC-5 Joseph Verreau wrote: > Matthew, > actually I was afraid to create either user or group manually as I was > not confident about whether there might be specifications I was not > familiar with thus both the user and group resulted when I first deleted > the directory /var/lib/weewx then ran dnf install weewx following the > install instructions for fedora 34+. I had checked both passwd and group > prior to running the install and the user and group were not present. > from grep weewx /etc/group I get: > xps13-9305:~$ grep weewx /etc/group > weewx:x:960: > > @xps13-9305:~$ ll /etc/group > -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1296 Jan 21 12:18 /etc/group > @xps13-9305:~$ ll /etc/passwd > -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 3400 Jan 21 12:18 /etc/passwd > @xps13-9305:~$ sudo dnf history list weewx > ID | Command line > | Date and time | Action(s) | > Altered > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 668 | install weewx > | 2024-01-21 12:18 | Install | > 5 > > joev.mi > _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ > > On Wednesday, January 24, 2024 at 3:29:51 PM UTC-5 matthew wall wrote: > >> On Wednesday, January 24, 2024 at 2:38:38 PM UTC-5 joev...@gmail.com >> wrote: >> >> 3) xps13-9305:/etc/init.d# grep weewx /etc/passwd >> weewx:x:971:960::/home/weewx:/sbin/nologin >> >> >> it looks like your 'weewx' user has uid 971, and it is in group '960'. >> it also has home directory '/home/weewx', which tells me that this weewx >> user was not created by the weewx v5 installer and dnf. >> >> what do you get from this: >> >> grep weewx /etc/group >> >> >> > -- 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/49d04929-bc9a-45e9-a0a5-da60d1447389n%40googlegroups.com.
