I will start fresh and document what I see sometime over the weekend.
However, root user running directly, would need the entire path to the
config passed. Attempting simply weewxd results in a failure to find
weewx.conf.
See weewx5-root.txt
On Friday, January 27, 2023 at 8:31:58 PM UTC-5 Tom Keffer wrote:
> The warning only happened because pip did a path check after it had been
> invoked using 'sudo', so it would not see anything that was not in
> secure_path.
>
> When it comes time to actually run weewxd, you most likely would not
> be using 'sudo', but rather simply run a daemon as the root user. The root
> user probably has /usr/local/bin in its path, if not simply add it in
> .profile (or equivalent).
>
> End result: it's probably a false warning that can be ignored.
>
> Wanted to ask you: earlier you said that the pip install instructions are
> "incomplete." I'm too close to this thing, so it's good to have some other
> eyes take a look. Anything in particular that you found incomplete or
> confusing?
>
> -tk
>
> On Fri, Jan 27, 2023 at 5:19 PM G Hammer <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> As this is a container, I will reset and incorporate the lessons learned
>> today, wheel, etc.
>> You are correct, the path does not contain /usr/local/bin when using sudo.
>> secure_path=/sbin\:/bin\:/usr/sbin\:/usr/bin
>>
>> I imagine visudo could solve that. But, are there other possibilities?
>>
>>
>> On Friday, January 27, 2023 at 5:18:04 PM UTC-5 Tom Keffer wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks for that!
>>>
>>> The error "Using legacy 'setup.py install' for pyephem, since package
>>> 'wheel' is not installed." is exactly that. You need to install 'wheel'
>>> before using pip:
>>>
>>> *sudo pip install wheel.*
>>>
>>>
>>> That little detail should really be in the quickstart guide.
>>>
>>> I suspect the "PATH" warning is because the path when running 'sudo' is
>>> different from the path without. Try
>>>
>>> *sudo -l*
>>>
>>>
>>> and see if "secure_path" is set for your user and, if so, whether it
>>> includes /usr/local/bin.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jan 27, 2023 at 1:30 PM G Hammer <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I spun up a clean Rocky Linux 9.1 container on Proxmox today to give v5
>>>> install a shot.
>>>> I created a user so as to not be installing as root, though I am going
>>>> to use sudo, so...
>>>> I used a variety of resources to get the general flow.
>>>> This one was good, but didn't hold your hand.
>>>> https://github.com/weewx/weewx/wiki/pip-install-strategies
>>>> This one had a bit more handholding, but was incomplete and was debian
>>>> oriented.
>>>> https://github.com/weewx/weewx/blob/V5/docs/quickstarts/pip.md
>>>>
>>>> Between the two, I thought I had enough to install.
>>>> sudo python3 -m pip install weewx
>>>>
>>>> That resulted in a good install, but a few items were not done with pip
>>>> as they needed wheel to be available.
>>>> There were also PATH warnings that look to be in error as the
>>>> directories are in the path. Plus, weewxd and utilities ran fine without
>>>> explicit full paths.
>>>>
>>>> I'm attaching the output from the install as weewx5-install.txt mainly
>>>> to show these items.
>>>>
>>>> I have installed weewx-mqtt and weewx-weatherlink-live, reconfigured
>>>> for these and all is running fine.
>>>>
>>>> Next I will add the systemd service file and enable it.
>>>>
>>>> I was kinda hesitant to go down the pip path. For no reason it seems.
>>>> This was easier than my traditional setup.py install.
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[root@wx-pip ~]# weewxd
Error parsing config file: Unable to find file 'weewx.conf'. Tried directories
['/root/weewx-data', '/etc/weewx', '/home/weewx']
**** Traceback (most recent call last):
**** File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/weewxd.py", line 83,
in main
**** config_path, config_dict =
weecfg.read_config(options.config_path, list(args))
**** File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/weecfg/__init__.py",
line 147, in read_config
**** config_path = find_file(config_path, args,
**** File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/weecfg/__init__.py",
line 115, in find_file
**** raise IOError("Unable to find file '%s'. Tried directories %s"
**** OSError: Unable to find file 'weewx.conf'. Tried directories
['/root/weewx-data', '/etc/weewx', '/home/weewx']
