Vince, Going to have a go at manually kicking it off with Sudo and see if that helps , seeing some life on the Weatherstation will give me the will to persevere :)... p.s. If you live anywhere in Southern England or Kent you have a instant free flight in the bag. Seeing the weather at the airfield before we set off down is pretty important for us , saves us loads of time driving :)
On Monday, October 3, 2016 at 9:07:56 PM UTC+1, vince wrote: > On Monday, October 3, 2016 at 12:53:01 PM UTC-7, mwall wrote: >> >> normally it is not a problem to run weewx as root, but if you need to >> harden the system, creating a separate weewx user can be a good thing. >> >> >> > Garrick - if you want to concentrate on other stuff like flying, just > running it as-is will probably be your lowest blood pressure option... > > Short answer is the pi os defaults to a non-privileged account 'pi' as you > have found out. So when you run commands manually on the pi that 'need' > privileges, you just need to preface your command with 'sudo' to make that > command (only) run with privileges. The startup files for weewx do this > for you because the startup sequence runs as the privileged user 'root'. > At the keyboard you need to do it yourself. > > weewx is a little unusual these days in that it runs as root rather than a > non-privileged account of its own, so when the startup scripts etc. run at > system bootup there aren't any of those kinds of permission issues. It's a > little different approach, with some historical reasons I guess behind it > that aren't worth going into. > > > > -- 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 [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
