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I rebooted the server and ran "ls -l /dev" and show this: crw-rw---- 1 root video 81, 0 2010-10-31 17:17 video0 crw-rw---- 1 root video 81, 2 2010-10-31 17:17 video1 crw-rw---- 1 root video 81, 4 2010-10-31 17:17 video2 crw-rw---- 1 root video 81, 6 2010-10-31 17:17 video3 Then I ran: sudo...

I struggled with this for hours, and 3 minutes after posting this, I ran across a thread with the fix.

Change these settings in Zoneminder.
1. Options -> Image -> OPT_CAMBOZOLA set to TICKED
2. Options -> Image -> STREAM_METHOD set to mpeg

After a fresh install of ZM 1.24.2 on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS server, I can connect to the zm site through Safari, but when I try to watch a camera, it only updates the image every 5 seconds. If I open the page with Firefox and do the same thing, the image displays in real time (~15 fps) I have made sure t...

I have seen this question asked before, but the given fixes dont work for me. I just did a fresh install of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS server. I then installed Zoneminder 1.24.2. I followed the instructions from here: http://viktorpetersson.com/2010/05/23/how-to-install-zoneminder-1-24-2-on-ubuntu-10-04-lts-s...

I just finished building Ubuntu 10.4 and installed Zoneminder 1.24.2

In order to get to my ZM server, I have to go to:
http://myipaddress/zoneminder

I would like to have it so that all I had to do was go to:
http://myipaddress
and that would take me to the Zoneminder homepage. How do I set that?

I am running zoneminder version 1.24.2-1. One of my cameras seems to be faulty and is filling the hard drive really fast. Purgewhenfull didn't do it's job, so now the server's hard drive is completely packed and the server won't do it's job. How can I delete some of the video footage via SSH so tha...

I decided to upload the images from ZM to an FTP site so they werent just sitting on my computer in my house waiting to get nabbed. So I got an FTP server and set it up under the ZM config. Then I went and setup a filter called "FTPfilter". The variables are: Date/Time greater than or equa...

I often check on my cameras from my Blackberry or work computer. The way I have done this is by setting up port forwarding on my broadband router, then passing an external port in to the ZM server. The problem with that is everything is through http, which is clear text. Are there any ways to enable...

Was this ever fixed? I am having the same problem and was hoping you discovered the problem.

I have the purgewhenfull filter set to run in the background and delete all events when the disk percentage is greater than or equal to 88%. It is currently sitting at 93% and staying there. If I run "df -h", I confirm the disk is at 93% full. When I look at /var/log/messages, I see lots o...

Any ideas on this?

I'd recommend a graphic du front end called 'filelight'. It will give you a pie chart display of your disk usage. Finding what (data) is filling your disk should be a good start to finding what (process) is filling it. Excellent idea! I ran flielight and quickly discovered that I left the debug opt...

I have been running ZM on an old Dell PC with a P4 1.8Ghz processor and 2Gb of RAM for the past year. It had a 160Gb disk in it. I always ran it on Mocord, and I would generally get 10 days worth of video before it started overwriting itself. I upgraded the hardware yesterday to a P4 3.2Ghz with 3Gb...

zoneminder wrote:Coming in the next version or two will be a feature to have this information written to the DB as system events.

Thats cool, thank you.

For now, even if I need to write a script which greps for something, would this go into the access.log, or is it logged anywhere?

I am using the opt_use_auth feature and have several users setup in ZM. I would like to check periodically to see who has logged in, how long they were logged in, etc. The best I could find was looking at the /var/log/apache2/access.log and seeing different IP addresses coming in, but I was hoping f...