wviewweather.com

IslandLife · Joined: 30 Jul 2005 Posts: 58 Location: Guam (USA)

http://www.pcrguam.com/weather/img/index.html

It works ... except it's running in my private/var folder which I can't get to automatically upload to our remote server (I'm using Interarchy now to do auto syncs from a local folder to the remote folder). If I can get the ftp upload included to work, I'm fine with this setup. Or should I try to get wview to run from the opt/local directory, and if so, how.

Thanks so much, it looks beautiful!

mteel · Joined: 30 Jun 2005 Posts: 435 Location: Collinsville, TX

OK, you are close...

wview "installs" in /opt/local/bin - or it should unless there is some chroot magic going on on your system. There will be configuration data at /etc/wview and the runtime data at /var/wview. So that is 3 locations of interest here. Let's get straight where they actually are:

As root (while wview is running) post output of:

1) find / -name "wviewd" -print

2) find / -name "wviewd.pid" -print

3) find / -name "wview.conf" -print

You will also need to confirm that tnftp is the ftp that is installed on your system - see the FTP section in the User Manual for directions on this.

Once I have clear answers on these, we will proceed.

Mark

IslandLife · Joined: 30 Jul 2005 Posts: 58 Location: Guam (USA)

1)
sudo find / -name "wviewd" -print

/opt/local/bin/wviewd
/private/var/wview/dev/wviewd
/usr/local/bin/wviewd
/wview-1.7.7/daemon/wviewd

2)
sudo find / -name "wviewd.pid" -print

/private/var/wview/wviewd.pid

3)
sudo find / -name "wview.conf" -print
/private/etc/wview/wview.conf
/private/etc/wview-old/wview/wview.conf
/private/etc/wview-old/wview.conf
/wview-1.7.7/examples/conf/wview.conf

IslandLife · Joined: 30 Jul 2005 Posts: 58 Location: Guam (USA)

This is from the wview.conf file:

##################### wviewd Configuration #####################

# Where to store monthly Weather data archive files:
ARCHIVE_PATH=/var/wview/archive

# VP Console archive retrieval interval (ms) - should be divisor of 60 secs:
ARCHIVE_INTERVAL=15000

# Current conditions data push interval for wvalarmd and possibly others (ms):
PUSH_INTERVAL=30000

# Produce more and verbose diagnostic log messages?
VERBOSE_MSGS=1

mteel · Joined: 30 Jun 2005 Posts: 435 Location: Collinsville, TX

IslandLife · Joined: 30 Jul 2005 Posts: 58 Location: Guam (USA)

mteel · Joined: 30 Jun 2005 Posts: 435 Location: Collinsville, TX

No it does not!

It assumes it is exactly where the find commands said it was and creates symbolic links under /etc and /var - either trust me or look up the ln command.

I wouldn't re-install, but it is up to you. The symbolic links should do the trick.

IslandLife · Joined: 30 Jul 2005 Posts: 58 Location: Guam (USA)

mteel · Joined: 30 Jun 2005 Posts: 435 Location: Collinsville, TX

mteel · Joined: 30 Jun 2005 Posts: 435 Location: Collinsville, TX

To become root (after you have played the little game MacOSX requires to enable the root account - google it):

IslandLife · Joined: 30 Jul 2005 Posts: 58 Location: Guam (USA)

Okay, so "physically" nothing is supposed to change (i.e no "alias" of the folders are created under the /opt/local directories). Gotcha. I'll delf deeper into the user manual now to get the ftp to upload.

mteel · Joined: 30 Jun 2005 Posts: 435 Location: Collinsville, TX

But did you see a wview "directory" (actually a link) under /var and /etc?

IslandLife · Joined: 30 Jul 2005 Posts: 58 Location: Guam (USA)

mteel · Joined: 30 Jun 2005 Posts: 435 Location: Collinsville, TX

OK, I don't know what you were thinking before, but there already were wview directories (real directories) underneath /var and /etc!!!

The only link I see is an errant one you somehow created inside /var/wview pointing to /private/var/wview... You should delete it. Are you typing the commands I gave you exactly?

cd /var/wview
rm -rf wview

Anyway, everything was already as it should be, in fact, I bet /private is a link to / !!!

cd /
ls -al
private -> /

but I could be wrong.

Anyway, the wview run and config directories (/var/wview and /etc/wview respectively) were installed where they should be from the git-go it looks like...

IslandLife · Joined: 30 Jul 2005 Posts: 58 Location: Guam (USA)

Anyway, everything was already as it should be, in fact, I bet /private is a link to / !!!

cd /
ls -al
private -> /

but I could be wrong.

Anyway, the wview run and config directories (/var/wview and /etc/wview respectively) were installed where they should be from the git-go it looks like...[/quote]

G5-Tower:/ paul$ ls -al
total 130691

<SNIP>

drwxrwxr-t 44 root admin 1598 Sep 9 08:33 .
drwxrwxr-t 44 root admin 1598 Sep 9 08:33 ..
drwxr-xr-x 44 paul paul 1496 Sep 8 15:00 wview-1.7.7

This is the wview folder downloaded (and decompressed).

G5-Tower:/ paul$ cd /private
G5-Tower:/private paul$ ls -al
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 6 root wheel 204 Sep 9 08:33 .
drwxrwxr-t 44 root admin 1598 Sep 9 08:33 ..
drwxr-xr-x 109 root wheel 3706 Sep 9 08:34 etc
drwxr-xr-x 4 root wheel 136 May 20 21:52 tftpboot
drwxrwxrwt 11 root wheel 374 Sep 9 09:53 tmp
drwxr-xr-x 28 root wheel 952 Sep 9 08:36 var

I guess that my problem is/was that the /private folder (directory) is hidden under the MacOSX finder until you actually try to open it (I use Safari the web browser, but there probably is a better (real) way for this too). So, initially I didn't SEE anything installed and was expecting it to be in the opt/local directory created by Darwinports (which is visible). Now because the files are located in this "hidden" directory I can't use the ftp client (Interarchy) I have been using. So, give me the weekend and I'll dig down deep in your user manual.

I have already turned WeatherLink off, because it is so awful, and I like your interface 1000 times better. When you start charging for your efforts, I'll be one of your first paying customers!

BTW, do you notice the sunrise/sunset times for my VantagePro Plus? <http://www.pcrguam.com/weather/img/index.html> It has been doing this forever, using the correct timezone correction for Guam (GMT +10). I'm sure that I can off-set the timezone to reflect actual conditions, but I've been thinking that it's strange.