On Sunday, August 19, 2018 at 8:15:09 AM UTC-7, Andrew Milner wrote:
>
> Having just been trying to reinstall weewx I have just found that the wiki 
> is misleading/confusing regarding the commands for implementing logging to 
> a separate file, logrotate and I suspect logwatch
>
> They all try and set a symlink to /etc/weewx/……….  which is fine for a 
> deb(I think) install, but need to be sudo ln -s /home/weewx/util/……. for a 
> setup.py installation
>
> Just taken me a while to fathom out why the symlinks were having no effect 
> as I had jut blindly copied what the instructions said to do!!!!
>
> Maybe someone could update the wiki
>


You might take another look at the wiki page:

*"These instructions assume that weewx was installed from DEB or RPM 
package. If weewx was installed using setup.py to /home/weewx, the weewx 
logwatch files will be located in /home/weewx/util/logwatch instead 
of /etc/weewx, so replace /etc/weewx with /home/weewx/util in the commands 
below."*



In general re: the wiki, I think it has too 'much' stuff in it that is 
basic to how to run a linux/unix(y) system that is already documented in 
hundreds of more authoritative online docs, tutorials, and howto type sites 
on Internet.   There's a limit to how much the weewx wiki can/should 
duplicate for basics like logwatch/logrotate etc.


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