A major change between V4 and V5 is daemon and file ownerships. By default, V5 runs as user "weewx", not "root."
Be sure to check the Upgrade Guide <https://www.weewx.com/docs/5.0/upgrade/#weewx-runs-as-non-root-user>! On Mon, May 6, 2024 at 3:41 PM G7LTT <enico...@gmail.com> wrote: > And that's one of the issues. No logs are being written. /var/log/syslog > has nothing and neither does/var/log/weewx/weexd.log. The debug=1 setting > is set. > > This was working just fine under V4 so I can't believe its to do with > things like perms. > > "running a somewhat unusual setup"? I assume you have no other users > runing weewx in a container? Makes total sense to do it that way when you > think about it. Even on an RPi. Why waste a whole machine on such a trivial > task? > > I'll take another swing at it. see if I can't get some logging going. > > Mark > > On Sunday, May 5, 2024 at 4:53:16 PM UTC-4 vince wrote: > >> We can't read minds. Need to see actual logs with debug=1 set in >> weewx.conf and ideally your weewx.conf file as well. >> >> The usual error tends to be permissions accessing the hardware or the >> network itself. Considering you're running a somewhat unusual setup you >> might want to provide a way for folks to try to look at what you might be >> missing within your container image. >> >> >> On Sunday, May 5, 2024 at 12:39:03 PM UTC-7 G7LTT wrote: >> >>> So I upgraded to V5.0.4 from 4.whatever and it looked like everything >>> went ok. But then about an hour later I noticed that the web pages were not >>> being updated. Off to the logs I go - nothing in the logs. >>> >>> Hmmnnn. OK, time to run it manually at the command line to see if it >>> spews anything out. Nope, works perfectly. I can leave "weewxd" running for >>> hours without any error. And the pages get updated/uploaded etc etc etc. >>> What gives? >>> >>> I am running Weewx in an LXC container on Proxmox in my homelab system. >>> I have the Ambient WS2000 API installed (rather than talk to the station it >>> collects the station data from Ambient themselves). >>> >>> V4 was running as expected in daemon mode. It would survive a >>> reboot/restart of the machine and the container. V5? Not so much. But there >>> are no entries in the log files for it which is making me suspicious. >>> >>> Any ideas? >>> >>> >>> >> -- > 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/0a125bbf-e4ca-429a-a7ea-6af232e67bb7n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/0a125bbf-e4ca-429a-a7ea-6af232e67bb7n%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/CAPq0zEBb4tz%3D%3DsD73inoAVnOPt%2BC58c%2B-YGioqm0iRUK4sG%3D-Q%40mail.gmail.com.
