Thank you thank you Leon! That's what I could not find for the life of me!
Regards Bill On Wednesday, August 7, 2019 at 12:58:46 PM UTC-4, Leon Shaner wrote: > > I have an example wunderfixer_wrapper script and corresponding crontab > example, here: > > https://github.com/UberEclectic/weewx/tree/watchdog/examples/watchdog > > You can ignore the watchdog if you want, because they're independent (but > complimentary) utilities. > If you want only the wunderfixer_wrapper then you just need to copy it > someplace and make the crontab entry match the path. > > Important note is that the crontab needs to be tied to the user that can > actually run wunderfixer. > For many that means "sudo crontab -e" so it's root's crontab. > But if you are running weewx as some user other than root, then become > that user and then just use "crontab -e" to add the entry. > > There are other changes within the wunderfixer_watchdog script which you > may need to change if you are not running weewx as root, for example where > to put the supplemental logs that the script writes, which are for > debugging purposes. I've left some comments in the script showing > alternatives. > > Do pay attention to the logrotate example per the readme.txt, so that your > supplemental log doesn't grow to infinity. It's that first line in the > logrotate file that needs to point to wherever you have wunderfixer_wrapper > writing the supplemental logs. If running as root, the example works as > is, since root can write to /var/log and the wrapper will create > /var/log/weewx.log. If running as some non-root user you can't keep that > default log path because /var/log needs super-user privileges. > > Regards, > \Leon > -- > Leon Shaner :: Dearborn, Michigan (iPad) > > On Aug 7, 2019, at 10:04 AM, CablDeViL <[email protected] <javascript:>> > wrote: > > > Good Day, > > I have searched the forums but I have not found the proper flags to run > with Wunderfix on my Cron job. > > Nor could I locate the best practices for times and tweaks to use on a Pi2. > > If anyone can point me to a github doc or such. I haven't even downloaded > it yes as I am doing research for my upgrade from a Pi1 to a Pi2 > > I do see great debate with the new and old APIs and Wunderfix so I am not > sure if I should just hold off for a quarter to see how it plays out. > > Thank you > > Bill > > > -- > 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] <javascript:>. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/dd63df72-4b79-4ae6-a8b4-eb3d65cb8ccd%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/dd63df72-4b79-4ae6-a8b4-eb3d65cb8ccd%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > -- 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]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/b143afc5-9314-4cf8-86ae-c175b06f9e31%40googlegroups.com.
