BTW, I run on mysql but I think there’s also a permission issue in creating the sqlite database file when running non-root, solved by pre-creating the file and setting its ownership.
-Les > On 1 Jan 2018, at 16:05, Les Niles <[email protected]> wrote: > > Under what user ID are you running weewx? I install from the debian package > on a Raspberry Pi, and have to work around some permission issues related to > running non-root. IIRC, there are two: > * weewx can’t create the PID file in /var/run, causing it to exit almost > immediately. My hack is putting lines in the startup script (actually in > /etc/defaults/weewx) to touch /var/run/weewx.pid and to chown that file to > the weewx user ID. > * weewx can’t create the html, etc. files because it can’t write to > /var/www/html. Solution is to manually create weewx's html directory and make > that directory owned by the weewx user ID. > > -Les > > >> On 1 Jan 2018, at 9:25, Cycle London <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> Yeah, I'm a friend of UNIX. 30 years of administering first Solaris, then >> RHEL and Slackware, FreeBSD, HP-UX and SCO UNIX. But zero knowledge of >> Python, so completely unable to troubleshoot this. And most of my days now >> are taken up with CentOS and RHEL, and I don't use apache2. >> >> Anyway, the system now appears to be running. >> >> root@weather:~# ps -ef | grep weather >> avahi 322 1 0 2017 ? 00:00:17 avahi-daemon: running >> [weather.local] >> >> Still nothing in the HTML_ROOT however. That's fine I guess since it's >> aliasing to /home/weewx/public_html but what should the permissions be on >> that directory? >> >> drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Jan 1 17:20 public_html >> >> And lynx localhost/weewx` still returns a 404 (with nothing in the httpd log >> but just that: 404). >> >> Trying to hit the Pi on http from my Mac also returns a 404, which isn't >> anything to do with name resolution as the Pi is in DNS and I can ping it on >> its FQDN. >> >> Stumped, now. >> >> >> On 1 January 2018 at 15:45, mwall <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> On Monday, January 1, 2018 at 9:33:55 AM UTC-5, Cycle London wrote: >> Now I seem to have broken the entire thing. I decided to try the python >> installation method, so ran `apt-get remove weewx` and then downloaded the >> tarball to try a manual installation. >> >> This time, there is content in /var/www/html but hardly anything (except >> user) under /usr/share/weewx. Everything is under /home but even when I >> place the new driver into /usr/share/weewx/user and modify the configuration >> file, I still get... >> >> welcome to "unix is user-friendly, it is just picky about who its friends >> are" >> >> there are a few things you should understand about debian linux and about >> python. >> >> 1) setup.py and apt-get are not compatible >> >> you really should use one or the other. the weewx wiki has instructions >> about how to change from one to the other. >> >> https://github.com/weewx/weewx/wiki/How%20to%20convert%20from%20setup.py%20install%20to%20debian%20install >> >> <https://github.com/weewx/weewx/wiki/How%20to%20convert%20from%20setup.py%20install%20to%20debian%20install> >> >> 2) how to use apt-get >> >> apt-get install weewx >> apt-get remove weewx >> apt-get purge weewx >> >> install does both initial installation as well as updates (but not upgrades) >> >> three different commands which do three different things. remove does not >> destroy any configuration files, especially not any that you have modified. >> it also does not remove any debconf values. >> >> purge deletes all configuration files and debconf values. it does not touch >> any weewx data (nominally /var/lib/weewx/weewx.sdb) >> >> for the state diagrams, see: >> >> https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/#maintainer-script-flowcharts >> <https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/#maintainer-script-flowcharts> >> >> we try to test installer stuff, but as you can see the surface area for >> testing is massive. so if you can clarify any procedures you make that >> result in unexpected results, that makes it more likely that someone will >> fix it. >> >> 3) python coders are lazy, and that is a good thing >> >> weewx does not create a database until it has to use it >> >> weewx does not create the html directory or any files in that directory >> until it has something to write. in a default installation, that means you >> will not see anything until after the first archive interval (nominally 5 >> minutes, but it depends on your configuration). >> >> 4) you almost never need to reinstall the operating system. linux is not >> windows, no matter how much certain redhat employees would like to make it >> so. >> >> hope that helps! >> >> m >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the >> Google Groups "weewx-user" group. >> To unsubscribe from this topic, visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/weewx-user/iGXSDG5XsOQ/unsubscribe >> <https://groups.google.com/d/topic/weewx-user/iGXSDG5XsOQ/unsubscribe>. >> To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to >> [email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout >> <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. >> >> >> -- >> 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] >> <mailto:[email protected]>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout >> <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. > > > -- > 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] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. 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