Add this one to the wiki or the FAQ ! On Wednesday, May 21, 2025 at 5:04:00 PM UTC-7 James B wrote:
> *Thank you* so much, John, Matthew, Vince. This totally worked. *Problem > solved*. Here's notes to remind me in the future, with your fixes: > > Settinng up RSYNC as weewx user for weewx 5.+ > > 1. ps aux | grep "weewx" (confirm user weewx running weewxd) > 2. log in as weewx > sudo usermod -s /usr/bin/bash weewx > sudo su weewx > 3. ssh-keygen > 4. ssh-copy-id your_remote_server_goes_here > 5. ssh to your_remote_server_goes_here (see if you can successfully > ssh without password) > 6. rsync test files to your_remote_server_goes_here (see if rsync is > working from cmd line) > 7. exit weewx user > 8. sudo usermod -s /usr/sbin/nologin weewx > 9. check weewx log files -- should be working! > On Wednesday, May 21, 2025 at 1:12:12 PM UTC-4 vince wrote: > >> oops - that is /usr/sbin/nologin of course. Sorry. >> >> sudo usermod -s /usr/bin/bash weewx # temporarily change the >> shell to a valid one >> sudo su weewx # now this will work >> >> (do anything requiring running as user weewx) >> >> sudo usermod -s /usr/sbin/nologin weewx # reverse the temporary >> change >> >> -- 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 visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/be9fa06c-da6a-4da2-a00a-02fe7d892c5cn%40googlegroups.com.
