Well, is this not curious?
Running sudo wee_reports without specifying the conf file yields:
$ sudo wee_reports
Using configuration file /etc/weewx/weewx.conf
Generating for all time
It uses the same file, from the same directory without squawking about it.
Andrew to the rescue... Again.
On Wednesday, September 6, 2017 at 9:01:45 PM UTC-7, TheChoctlab wrote:
>
> Thank you.
>
>
>
> On Wednesday, September 6, 2017 at 8:59:05 PM UTC-7, Andrew Milner wrote:
>>
>> I don't know then - sorry. I got odd results when running wee_reports
>> and specifying a config file unless I used sudo wee_reports --config=
>>
>> Have no other suggestions apart from moving the file to somewhere else
>> and trying again. I did my test by copying weew.conf to /home/pi and
>> running reports, and it seemed ok once I used sudo.
>>
>> Sorry - you'll have to wait for someone else's input!
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thursday, 7 September 2017 06:53:49 UTC+3, TheChoctlab wrote:
>>
>>> Same result when using sudo.
>>>
>>> ls -l weewx.conf
>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16493 Sep 6 20:06 weewx.conf
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wednesday, September 6, 2017 at 8:46:39 PM UTC-7, Andrew Milner wrote:
>>>>
>>>> have you tried sudo?
>>>>
>>>> what are the permissions for /etc/weewx/weewx.conf?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Thursday, 7 September 2017 06:27:16 UTC+3, TheChoctlab wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> wee_reports –config=/etc/weewx/weewx.conf
>>>>>
>>>>> Now yields the following:
>>>>>
>>>>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>>>> File "/usr/bin/wee_reports", line 69, in <module>
>>>>> main()
>>>>> File "/usr/bin/wee_reports", line 40, in main
>>>>> config_path, config_dict = weecfg.read_config(options.config_path,
>>>>> args)
>>>>> File "/usr/share/weewx/weecfg/__init__.py", line 221, in read_config
>>>>> locations=locations, file_name=file_name)
>>>>> File "/usr/share/weewx/weecfg/__init__.py", line 196, in find_file
>>>>> raise IOError("%s is not a file" % file_path)
>>>>> IOError: –config=/etc/weewx/weewx.conf is not a file
>>>>>
>>>>> However, /etc/weewx/weewx.conf does exist and I can bring it up at
>>>>> will in nano.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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