Here you go, my previous error was trying to run weectl as root

On Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 1:09:48 PM UTC-8 Vince Skahan wrote:

> Write to a directory you have permission to write to…
> On Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 12:43:01 PM UTC-8 Cat22 wrote:
>
>> # ./weectl debug --output=/var/tmp/weewx.info 
>> --config=/home/erbenton/weewx-data/weewx.conf 
>> Using configuration file /home/erbenton/weewx-data/weewx.conf 
>> Traceback (most recent call last): 
>>  File "/home/erbenton/weewx-venv/bin/./weectl", line 8, in <module> 
>>    sys.exit(main()) 
>>             ~~~~^^ 
>>  File 
>> "/home/erbenton/weewx-venv/lib64/python3.13/site-packages/weectl.py", 
>> line 67, in main 
>>    namespace.func(namespace) 
>>    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^ 
>>  File 
>> "/home/erbenton/weewx-venv/lib64/python3.13/site-packages/weectllib/__init__.py",
>>  
>> line 90, in dispatch 
>>    namespace.action_func(config_dict, namespace) 
>>    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 
>>  File 
>> "/home/erbenton/weewx-venv/lib64/python3.13/site-packages/weectllib/debug_cmd.py",
>>  
>> line 54, in debug 
>>    weectllib.debug_actions.debug(config_dict, output=namespace.output) 
>>    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 
>>  File 
>> "/home/erbenton/weewx-venv/lib64/python3.13/site-packages/weectllib/debug_actions.py",
>>  
>> line 48, in debug 
>>    sink = open(output, 'wt') 
>> PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/tmp/weewx.info'
>>
>>
>> On Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 5:12:15 AM UTC-8 Pablo Sanchez wrote:
>>
>>> Have a look at the documentation to gather debug information to post 
>>> back for help:
>>>
>>> https://weewx.com/docs/5.2/utilities/weectl-debug/
>>> ---
>>> pablo
>>>
>>> On February 22, 2026 07:48:49 "'[email protected]' via weewx-user" <
>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Then take a look into the logs. Most likely there are hints in it 
>>>> helping finding the root cause of the problem.
>>>>
>>>> Cat22 schrieb am Sonntag, 22. Februar 2026 um 07:10:49 UTC+1:
>>>>
>>>>> Thank you for that information
>>>>> my problem is that my weather website at 
>>>>> http://nisquallyhighlands.net/ which has run for several years all of 
>>>>> a sudden is broken.
>>>>> It repeats it self indefinitely and i don't know why. I don't remember 
>>>>> touching it for a very long time. It uses the steel series gauges
>>>>> and beyond hat nothing special
>>>>>
>>>>> On Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 6:47:58 PM UTC-8 Pablo Sanchez wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 2026-02-21 19:41, cat22 wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> opensuse tumbleweed recently switched to myrlyn. What is the proper 
>>>>>> baseurl for the weewx.repo? 
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> FWIW, I ended up using the pip method - see 
>>>>>> https://weewx.com/docs/5.2/quickstarts/pip 
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ---
>>>>>> pablo
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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