Re: [weewx-user] Installing skin

2025-01-01 Thread vince
Just to answer my own question experimentally and for future me via the search engine, I built a quick vagrant deb12 vm to test the package installer and if sudo was/wasn't needed thereafter. - After installation which runs as user 'vagrant', all the content in /etc/weewx are user=weewx g

Re: [weewx-user] Installing skin

2025-01-01 Thread Auchtermuchty Weather
I've had no problems with the v5 program weectl, though I sudo it. I don't log in as weewx, indeed it was setup by WeeWx as nologin: weewx:x:102:110::/var/lib/weewx:/usr/sbin/nologin On Wednesday, 1 January 2025 at 00:34:48 UTC vince wrote: > Tom - procedural question for you. Given that v

Re: [weewx-user] Installing skin

2024-12-31 Thread vince
Tom - procedural question for you. Given that v5 runs as user 'weewx' for packaged installations, and since that user typically is set to nologin, should there be a note someplace saying that if folks want to run weectl as their personal username (whatever that is) they need to add themselves

Re: [weewx-user] Installing skin

2024-12-31 Thread Tom Keffer
It's all in the Upgrade Guide . On Tue, Dec 31, 2024 at 2:32 PM Michael Serowik wrote: > Happy New Year. > > Here is my current setup > > weewx 5.0.1 > debian 12.8 > Davis Vantage Pro 2 Weather Station. > > > I am trying to install teh be