Yes, that option stops the LOOP and ARCHIVE messages from being logged. rich
On Sunday, 24 April 2022 at 04:56:21 UTC-4 Cameron D wrote: > I have just implemented this in my systemd service file and notice a > journal full of LOOP packets. > Is that why we also need the line saying... > StandardOutput=null > > On Saturday, 23 April 2022 at 3:21:26 pm UTC+10 Bernhard R. wrote: > >> Hi matthew, >> >> confirmed, removing the pidfile option seems not to be doing any harm. >> As weewx is now started by systemd in non-forking mode, it does know the >> pidfile directly from the foreground process (python) anyway, so I would no >> expect any downsides of removing the pidfile-option in this case... >> >> Thanks again, guys, >> >> Bernhard :-) >> matthew wall schrieb am Samstag, 23. April 2022 um 07:12:20 UTC+2: >> >>> On Saturday, April 23, 2022 at 12:54:08 AM UTC-4 Bernhard R. wrote: >>> >>>> May I add one more comment on this? >>>> At least in the suse-world, it seems that pidfiles are to be created in >>>> /run now, not in /var/run anymore, following FHS 3.0 >>>> <https://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/FHS_3.0/fhs/ch05s13.html>. >>>> I'm not sure how other distros do handle that but at least for suse, it >>>> would be great to alter the ExecStart line to >>>> >>>> ExecStart=/usr/bin/weewxd --pidfile=/run/weewx.pid >>>> /etc/weewx/weewx.conf >>> >>> >>> thank you bernhard. the --daemon option has been removed from the >>> systemd unit file at commit 8e13bad1b1e8226569d0685724ac5a4bcbfa1945 >>> >>> i also removed the pidfile option, since the pidfile is not necessary >>> for systemd, and it just causes problems, either in the location (/run vs >>> /var/run) or with permissions (when running as non-root users, you must >>> specify permissions on the directory in which the pid file is located). >>> >>> these changes should appear in weewx 4.8.1 >>> >>> for the record, the --daemon option works in the unit file when you tell >>> systemd that weewx is a forking process. but when weewx is declared as a >>> simple non-forking process, using the --daemon option causes problems. for >>> systems that do not use systemd, the --daemon option is still the preferred >>> invocation. >>> >>> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-development" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-development/3d4085c8-d214-439d-bdf4-c801e2845213n%40googlegroups.com.
