I don't know what I can add to the comments I already made on the issues list: the --pidfile option is only used if you use the --daemon option.
On Sat, Mar 9, 2024 at 2:19 PM silke <silke4...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I recently made the switch to v5 and overall the migration was working > quite smoothly, despite running many extensions and skins. I'm on Ubuntu > and use DEB installation. > > The one thing that is not working yet is my weewx process health > monitoring which is based on PID file. I cannot get weewx to create a PID > file whatever I try. (in v4 this worked out of the box) > > I'm adding the --pidfile option to the systemd file, and it shows > correctly in the process list: > > weewx 941451 51.1 8.7 1921212 1415068 ? Ssl 23:00 3:23 python3 > /usr/share/weewx/weewxd.py /etc/weewx/weewx.conf --pidfile > /run/weewx/weewx.pid > > the folder /run/weewx is owned by weewx:weewx > > silke@enterprise:/etc/weewx$ ls -la /run/weewx/ > total 0 > drwxrwxr-x 2 weewx weewx 40 Mär 9 23:00 . > drwxr-xr-x 50 root root 1420 Mär 9 23:00 .. > > but still, no file is getting created upon restart. > > Anyone having an idea what I'm doing wrong? > > Thanks a lot, Silke > > -- > 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/fb454ef9-ae53-4211-bf15-283bd067c567n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/fb454ef9-ae53-4211-bf15-283bd067c567n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/CAPq0zEBDW6poBOygS%3D5eYNzFUe-jcP5EF7ETO%3D9XGjxcixRi2Q%40mail.gmail.com.
