Rainer, that worked. I had figured it out just before you'd sent that 
message. I just had to add the full path for weewx.conf to the command. 
"/etc/weewx/weewx.conf"

Everything is back to normal. Thank you! 




On Tuesday, June 13, 2023 at 4:53:46 PM UTC-4 Rainer Lang wrote:

> you should read and apply the proper synthax:
>
> try wee_database --help 
> and apply ....
> when you mention weewx.conf then as --config=/etc/weewx/weewx.conf
> if you have only one database and one respective weewx.conf, you don't 
> need to mention it (but you can, however, then correctly)
>
> (sudo) wee_database --drop-daily
> and
> (sudo) weew_database --rebuild-daily
> should suffice
>
> if you want to mention weewx.conf, then:
> (sudo) wee_database --drop-daily --config=/etc/weewx/weewx.conf
> etc
> On 13.06.2023 22:46, Kevin Crivelli wrote:
>
> I was able to delete the entries from the database using the guide 
> provided at 
> https://github.com/weewx/weewx/wiki/Cleaning%20up%20old%20'bad'%20data 
> however, when I got to the section for cleaning up the daily summaries I 
> ran into an error with the commands provided
>
> wee_database weewx.conf --drop-daily and wee_database weewx.conf 
> --rebuild-daily gave me this error
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/share/weewx/wee_database", line 1168, in <module>
>     main()
>   File "/usr/share/weewx/wee_database", line 187, in main
>     config_path, config_dict = weecfg.read_config(options.config_path, 
> args)
>   File "/usr/share/weewx/weecfg/__init__.py", line 146, in read_config
>     config_path = find_file(config_path, args,
>   File "/usr/share/weewx/weecfg/__init__.py", line 117, in find_file
>     raise IOError("%s is not a file" % file_path)
> OSError: weewx.conf is not a file
> On Tuesday, June 13, 2023 at 4:12:46 PM UTC-4 Kevin Crivelli wrote:
>
>> there were 3 entries over 3,000 strikes in a matter of minutes that 
>> pushed my count to 11,970 for the day. There has to be a way to remove 
>> those entries. please let me know if anyone knows how. 
>>
>> [image: lightning strike error.JPG]
>>
>> On Tuesday, June 13, 2023 at 3:47:46 PM UTC-4 Kevin Crivelli wrote:
>>
>>> I'm not sure how or why it happened but today around 3:25pm I received a 
>>> strike count of over 4,000 strikes. Is there a way to go into the database 
>>> and remove this entry? or perhaps I can add a correction in the corrections 
>>> section if lightning_strike_count is < 4,000 = none or something?
>>>
>>> thanks for any help on this matter. really odd
>>>
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