Important detail: What is important with the slashes and the path are related to the SOURCE path. It doesn't matter if the destination does or doesn't have a trailing slash. It does matter if the destination specifies a file rather than a directory, though.
On Tuesday, November 15, 2022 at 9:51:30 AM UTC-7 FIA Ranch wrote: > Okay...... Thanks all for the thoughts and comments. > > For the sake of anyone fighting this same issue somewhere in the future, > let me get this refocused, clarified, up to date. > > Baseline Info > ------ > 1) Host Machine is a hosting company > 2) The host machine is a shared Linux based machine > 3) I own the domain and rent the hosting > 4) In the absolute path... home3/fiaranch/........ - everything under and > past 'fiaranch' I have full control of > > 5) Client Machine is mine and is a private machine to be used and abused > as I see fit. :o) > > Users Question - Closed > With regards to this issue with WeeWX, all activity will be with my root > hat on. > > SSH Keys Issue - Closed > Thanks to Vince I learned that user and root keys are independant. Now > both root and user have their own keys and they have been tested. > > SSH Port Question - Closed > The hosting company states two ports as follows: > SSH - 22 > SSH Shared/Reseller Servers - 2222 > NOTE - Command line Rsync actually works with both > > > Question of "/" placement - Closed > > Thank you cric...@pobox.com for the definition of differentiation. > > File placement on the host is absolute path > /home3/fiaranch/public_html/weather/*.* > > Using command line, Rsync will accept both, which makes sense based on > what cric...@pobox.com stated. > > Command (WITH trailing '/') - root@weather:~# rsync -avhze ssh --progress > --update --stats /var/www/html/ --delete > fiar...@fiaranch.com:/home3/fiaranch/public_html/weather/ > > Result (without all the superfulous data) > sent 595.67K bytes received 17.85K bytes 31.46K bytes/sec > total size is 1.79M speedup is 2.91 > > Command (WITHOUT trailing '/') - root@weather:~# rsync -avhze ssh > --progress --update --stats /var/www/html/ --delete > fiar...@fiaranch.com:/home3/fiaranch/public_html/weather > > Result (without all the superfulous data) > sent 309.53K bytes received 12.20K bytes 71.49K bytes/sec > total size is 1.86M speedup is 5.77 > > Note - The result difference is mainly a time difference. However, based > on differentiation cric...@pobox.com stated, I am going to go forward > without the trailing '/'. > > So that brings me to WeeWX config discussion. > > The WeeWX Config is now as follows: > skin = Rsync > enable = true > server = fiaranch.com > user = fiaranch > path = /home3/fiaranch/public_html/weather > port = 2222 > log_success = true > log_failure = true > HTML_ROOT = /var/www/html > delete = 1 > > Notes: > 1) The two log entries I added from what Vince posted. Just to see if > that provides any additional information. > 2) Removed the trailing '/' from the path. > > Results > Nov 15 09:34:23 weather weewx[5274] DEBUG weewx.reportengine: Running > report 'RSYNC' > Nov 15 09:34:23 weather weewx[5274] DEBUG weewx.reportengine: Found > configuration file /etc/weewx/skins/Rsync/skin.conf for report 'RSYNC' > Nov 15 09:34:23 weather weewx[5274] DEBUG weewx.reportengine: Cannot read > localization file /etc/weewx/skins/Rsync/lang/en.conf for report 'RSYNC': > Config file not found: "/etc/weewx/skins/Rsync/lang/en.conf". > Nov 15 09:34:23 weather weewx[5274] DEBUG weewx.reportengine: **** Using > defaults instead. > Nov 15 09:34:23 weather weewx[5274] DEBUG weeutil.rsyncupload: > rsyncupload: cmd: [['rsync', '--archive', '--stats', '--delete', '-e', 'ssh > -p 2222', '/var/www/html/', > 'fiar...@fiaranch.com:/home3/fiaranch/public_html/weather']] > Nov 15 09:34:26 weather weewx[5274] INFO weeutil.rsyncupload: rsync'd 56 > files (1,093,360 bytes) in 2.42 seconds > > WHAT !!!!! > > All said and done.... the failures can be attributed to two things: > 1) SSH Keys must be paired under root, not user - Thank You Vince > 2) No trailing '/' in the path. Even though it will work in a command > line Rsync, it will not work in WeeWX. > > Discussion Closed!!!! > > Thanks to all for the comments, ideas, assistance, and sharing your > experience! > > Now going to play with Rsync options to see if I can break it again!! > LMFAO > > > > > > > > On Tuesday, November 15, 2022 at 9:17:55 AM UTC-7 jo...@johnkline.com > wrote: > >> A trailing slash means copy the contents of the directory. >> >> Note that WeeWX code will add the slash if it is a directory. See code >> snippet below. >> >> [image: weewx.png] >> >> weewx/rsyncupload.py at master · weewx/weewx >> <https://github.com/weewx/weewx/blob/master/bin/weeutil/rsyncupload.py> >> github.com >> <https://github.com/weewx/weewx/blob/master/bin/weeutil/rsyncupload.py> >> <https://github.com/weewx/weewx/blob/master/bin/weeutil/rsyncupload.py> >> >> # If the source path ends with a slash, rsync interprets >> # that as a request to copy all the directory's *contents*, >> # whereas if it doesn't, it copies the entire directory. >> # We want the former, so make it end with a slash. >> # Note: Don't add the slash if local_root isn't a directory >> if self.local_root.endswith(os.sep) or not >> os.path.isdir(self.local_root): >> rsynclocalspec = self.local_root >> else: >> rsynclocalspec = self.local_root + os.sep >> >> >> On Nov 15, 2022, at 7:33 AM, cric...@pobox.com <cric...@pobox.com> wrote: >> >> A couple of points about the trailing slashes. A trailing slash means >> copy the contents of the directory. The --archive >> >> means copy everything below the specified directory. Not including a >> trailing slash means copy this directory and with >> --archive, everything below it. It's not a matter of rsync not working >> because of the slashes, it just does two similar, but >> different things. The man pages for rsync are pretty good. >> As for the ssh keys, I'm pretty sure you can just copy the >> ~fiaranch/.ssh/id_rsa to ~root/.ssh. No need to create root-specific >> key pair and copy the public server's .ssh directory. Oh, one other >> thing that's really important: >> >> The .ssh directory permissions are critical. The directory itself must >> be chmod 0700. The files inside it should be chmod 0600. >> This is true for all the .ssh directories on both ends of the connection. >> >> My setup is a little different; I rsync to another local machine that >> runs a web server. Then I've got a separate script for >> publishing the weewx (and a few other sites) to a public host, since the >> various href's need to be updated. >> >> On Tuesday, November 15, 2022 at 5:25:11 AM UTC-7 Greg Troxel wrote: >> >>> >>> "gszla...@gmail.com" <gszla...@gmail.com> writes: >>> >>> > 1. Vince is correct. WeeWX runs as root and RSA generation must be >>> done as >>> > root. >>> >>> I was sure Vince was correct to start with :-) but I think running weewx >>> as root is the wrong thing to do. I run it as a non-root user, and >>> really there should be a dedicated weewx user that has permissions to do >>> what it needs (read the serial port, write the db, access credentials >>> for upload) and no more. >>> >>> But this is really "how best to configure weewx on operating system X", >>> which is orthogonal to "how should I made weewx on system X already >>> configured as Y work". >>> >> -- >> 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/a69561f5-048a-4e2f-bc8f-e009a9cc2911n%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/a69561f5-048a-4e2f-bc8f-e009a9cc2911n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. 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