On 10/11/2020 10:42, Vincent Coen wrote:
Hello RobH!
Tuesday November 10 2020 20:08, you wrote to me:
Do a ssh into your Pi.
Then do
pwd
ls -la
Now do
sudo -s
pwd
ls -la
and report what you get
Vince
> On 10/11/2020 06:05, Vincent Coen wrote:
>> Hello RobH!
>>
>> Tuesday November 10 2020 17:40, you wrote to All:
>>
>> > I have a python script to run some leds, and I'm having a
>> problem with
>> > it! When I ssh into my pi zero, then sudo python3 python
>> script.py, it
>> > doesn't run, no leds are lit.
>> > But if I open a terminal in the pi desktop and run the same
>> command
>> > line, it works and the leds light up.
>>
>> > Anyone know why this happens.
>>
>> Who owns the script.py and where is it ?
>>
>>
>> Remember sudo takes root priv. and the directory so try :
>>
>> sudo python3 /home/pi/script.py or whater the user name is along
>> with the correct python run command is.
>>
>>
>> Vincent
>>
> I ssh'd into my pi zero, then I created the script with : sudo nano
> script.py then copied some other python script into the new script.py.
> I then ran sudo python3 script.py from within the directory the said
> script is in, which is the Downloads directory.
> Nothing happens, no errors, no leds lit.
> If I open a terminal window on the pi desktop and run the exact same
> sudo python3 script.py, it runs and the leds light up
Vincent
Apologies for late reply but here are the results of what you asked:
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ pwd
/home/pi
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ ls -la
total 92
drwxrwxrwx 15 pi pi 4096 Nov 11 12:32 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Aug 20 11:31 ..
-rw--w--w- 1 pi pi 671 Nov 10 20:11 .bash_history
-rw-rw-rw- 1 pi pi 220 Aug 20 11:31 .bash_logout
-rw-rw-rw- 1 pi pi 3523 Aug 20 11:31 .bashrc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 364 Nov 8 17:22 blinkatest.py
drwxrwxrwx 2 pi pi 4096 Aug 20 11:40 Bookshelf
drwxrwxrwx 6 pi pi 4096 Nov 8 17:20 .cache
drwx-w--w- 12 pi pi 4096 Nov 10 17:10 .config
drwxrwxrwx 2 pi pi 4096 Nov 8 16:40 Desktop
drwxrwxrwx 2 pi pi 4096 Nov 8 16:40 Documents
drwxrwxrwx 6 pi pi 4096 Nov 10 20:40 Downloads
drwx-w--w- 3 pi pi 4096 Aug 20 12:09 .gnupg
drwxrwxrwx 5 pi pi 4096 Nov 8 17:20 .local
drwxrwxrwx 2 pi pi 4096 Nov 8 16:40 Music
drwxrwxrwx 2 pi pi 4096 Nov 8 16:40 Pictures
-rw-rw-rw- 1 pi pi 807 Aug 20 11:31 .profile
drwxrwxrwx 2 pi pi 4096 Nov 8 16:40 Public
drwxrwxrwx 2 pi pi 4096 Nov 8 16:40 Templates
drwxrwxrwx 2 pi pi 4096 Nov 8 16:40 Videos
-rw--w--w- 1 pi pi 56 Nov 11 12:32 .Xauthority
-rw------- 1 pi pi 2493 Nov 11 12:32 .xsession-errors
-rw------- 1 pi pi 2493 Nov 11 09:17 .xsession-errors.old
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo -s
root@raspberrypi:/home/pi# pwd
/home/pi
root@raspberrypi:/home/pi# ls -la
total 92
drwxrwxrwx 15 pi pi 4096 Nov 11 12:32 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Aug 20 11:31 ..
-rw--w--w- 1 pi pi 671 Nov 10 20:11 .bash_history
-rw-rw-rw- 1 pi pi 220 Aug 20 11:31 .bash_logout
-rw-rw-rw- 1 pi pi 3523 Aug 20 11:31 .bashrc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 364 Nov 8 17:22 blinkatest.py
drwxrwxrwx 2 pi pi 4096 Aug 20 11:40 Bookshelf
drwxrwxrwx 6 pi pi 4096 Nov 8 17:20 .cache
drwx-w--w- 12 pi pi 4096 Nov 10 17:10 .config
drwxrwxrwx 2 pi pi 4096 Nov 8 16:40 Desktop
drwxrwxrwx 2 pi pi 4096 Nov 8 16:40 Documents
drwxrwxrwx 6 pi pi 4096 Nov 10 20:40 Downloads
drwx-w--w- 3 pi pi 4096 Aug 20 12:09 .gnupg
drwxrwxrwx 5 pi pi 4096 Nov 8 17:20 .local
drwxrwxrwx 2 pi pi 4096 Nov 8 16:40 Music
drwxrwxrwx 2 pi pi 4096 Nov 8 16:40 Pictures
-rw-rw-rw- 1 pi pi 807 Aug 20 11:31 .profile
drwxrwxrwx 2 pi pi 4096 Nov 8 16:40 Public
drwxrwxrwx 2 pi pi 4096 Nov 8 16:40 Templates
drwxrwxrwx 2 pi pi 4096 Nov 8 16:40 Videos
-rw--w--w- 1 pi pi 56 Nov 11 12:32 .Xauthority
-rw------- 1 pi pi 2493 Nov 11 12:32 .xsession-errors
-rw------- 1 pi pi 2493 Nov 11 09:17 .xsession-errors.old root@raspberrypi:/home/pi#
Thanks
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