So taking your advice, I looked into the bme280wx.py file and noticed that there were a number of places where it was writing out information to various file; syslog, debug and user. When I commented those lines out, voila no more excessive logging. Thanks again tk Lee
On Wednesday, January 20, 2021 at 10:58:46 AM UTC-8 tke...@gmail.com wrote: > Those things are generally set in /etc/rsyslog.d > > On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 10:54 AM LeaF <lee.fled...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> tk >> Thanks for the observation. I'll do some snooping around the bme280 and >> see what I can find. >> >> (It's not only syslog getting overwhelmed with entries, but debug and >> user log files are filled with the same info) >> >> Thanks >> Lee >> >> On Wednesday, January 20, 2021 at 10:50:01 AM UTC-8 tke...@gmail.com >> wrote: >> >>> It looks like an extension you are using, bme280, is what is creating >>> the chatter. Unfortunately, from the little log snippet you gave, it does >>> not appear to be WeeWX V4 compliant, so muzzling it will not be as easy as >>> a weewx.conf setting. You could ask the author to update it to V4, then you >>> could follow the directions in the Wiki article *WeeWX V4 and logging >>> <https://github.com/weewx/weewx/wiki/WeeWX-v4-and-logging>*. >>> >>> OTOH, fortunately, it looks like the log entry is a debug entry, so >>> setting debug=0 in weewx.conf should help reduce the number of entries. >>> >>> -tk >>> >>> >>> >>> On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 10:39 AM LeaF <lee.fled...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> I have a question regarding what goes into the /var/log/syslog file. >>>> >>>> I’m running the latest version of weewx on a Raspberry Pi 4. My >>>> station is a Peet Bros Ultimeter 100. I also added a Adafruit BME280 >>>> breakout board to measure pressure and humidity. >>>> >>>> This all works very well. Thank you >>>> >>>> When I run sudo tail -f /var/log/syslog, there appears to be three >>>> entries per second being written to the log file. So as you can >>>> imagine, the log file has a lot of info that I don’t want in there. Any >>>> errors are being written to weewx.log file. >>>> >>>> How can I limit what is going to the log file so they don’t grow so >>>> large? I looked at rsyslog.conf, but don’t know if this is the >>>> correct place to limit the log entries. >>>> >>>> Example, one entry into log file: >>>> >>>> Jan 20 10:22:47 WeatherPi /weewxd: bme280: {'dateTime': 1611166967, >>>> 'usUnits': 1, 'windSpeed': 0.0, 'windDir': 55.058796, 'outTemp': >>>> 38.300000000000004, 'rain_total': 0.5, 'barometer': None, 'inTemp': None, >>>> 'outHumidity': 77.02371597125266, 'inHumidity': None, 'day_of_year': 19, >>>> 'minute_of_day': 620, 'daily_rain': 0.0, 'wind_average': 0.0, 'rain': 0.0, >>>> 'pressure': 29.53154056121909} >>>> >>>> Thanks for your help. >>>> >>>> Lee >>>> >>>> -- >>>> 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 weewx-user+...@googlegroups.com. >>>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/7c9cae95-4bcd-4dd6-b293-2113d6a5054cn%40googlegroups.com >>>> >>>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/7c9cae95-4bcd-4dd6-b293-2113d6a5054cn%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 weewx-user+...@googlegroups.com. >> > To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/08c304c3-aa29-4a12-a1ac-d0824643d2f7n%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/08c304c3-aa29-4a12-a1ac-d0824643d2f7n%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 weewx-user+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/1ca1f295-9116-4ade-bccc-8ec496f8688dn%40googlegroups.com.
