Could someone make an issue that captures this problem? Both Matthew and I are on a small boat and have very poor Internet conductivity.
On Thu, Aug 2, 2018 at 2:12 AM Andrew Milner <[email protected]> wrote: > Well thank goodness for that Paul, what a relief - for me as well as for > you!!! > > Now you're on your way again …. great ….. > > Glad to have been a little assistance - needed Gary's lateral thinking > though!!! > > Andrew > > > On Thursday, 2 August 2018 09:09:06 UTC+3, Paul_N wrote: >> >> Hi Andrew and Gary, thank you so much for taking the time to try to help >> me further - and between you, you've cracked the problem ! >> >> I ran the .tables command in sqlite3 and found lots of archive_day_xxxxx >> tables in my database, which were still present after I executed the >> drop-daily command. >> >> However, when I prefixed that command with sudo as suggested, those >> tables disappeared. >> >> Then I ran the rebuild-daily command, also pre-fixing it with sudo - and >> now for the first time I see messages about numbers of records processed >> etc and that command takes a number of seconds to complete, rather than >> just ending instantly. >> >> I then deleted all the png, html and NOAA files and re-started >> weewx......and lo and behold all my reports are now correct with no rogue >> data, yippee !! >> >> Perhaps Tom K needs to update his wiki guide on how to do all this as I'm >> guessing I'm not the only person who has these permission problems >> preventing drop-daily and rebuild-daily from working ? And yes, it does >> seem odd that those weewx_database commands do not produce an error of any >> kind when they fail due to lack of permission. >> >> Anyway, its working for me now---- thank you so much Andrew and Gary for >> your fantastic help, you guys rock ! >> Regards, Paul >> >> >> >> On Thursday, August 2, 2018 at 6:14:48 AM UTC+1, Andrew Milner wrote: >>> >>> wow. Well if you're right then it's a bug in wee_database for not >>> reporting an error of some kind. >>> >>> On Thursday, 2 August 2018 07:02:08 UTC+3, gjr80 wrote: >>>> >>>> I would have thought so bu I just tried it on a VM and it didn't throw >>>> an error, it looked for all intents and purposes as if --drop-daily worked >>>> but when I checked with sqlite3 the tables remained. Have not had a chance >>>> to dig any deeper. >>>> >>>> Gary >>>> >>> -- > 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]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
