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Looking back, you say your OS is Ubuntu 12.04LTS headless -- anyone care to peer into /etc/cron.daily and say what's lurking there?

You may need to look up some details on how cron works too :) Welcome to Linux ... an endless maze of stuff to learn! Quick guide -- again this is Slackware, but ... "crond" (the bit that does the work) reads the instructions in /var/spool/cron/crontab/[user] and fires off various jobs acc...

Good place to start is here :-

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesyste ... y_Standard

... although every linux distribution will vary, here and there ...

"the filter appears to run against all existing events" It will. That's what you asked for. It's not what you wanted though ... If you were under the impression that filters are run only against each new incoming event, then that's the mis-step in the plan. You will need to do some adding ...

So Its ok to have the script in cron.daily...just not a place fort the backups to reside (as of right now I have the backups 1 deeper below the cron.daily). With *nix systems, you are free to ignore all conventions and do whatever you like, as long as you a) understand the consequences, and b) take...

mikb I did set the backup path to my cron.daily folder OK so that was a bad move. It says "path to your backups". Your backups are not -- or really really should not be -- stored in /etc/cron.daily. I guess you've realised that now :( Anything in /etc/cron.daily is considered a script/bin...

I ended up putting this script in etc/cron.daily. I then ran the script in this directory....and I believe it deleted all my daily.crons... I thought my directory had about a dozen things in it...but after I believed it deleted all because older than 30 days.. "${FIND} ${BKUP_PATH} -maxdepth 1...

- Get a small ups. ... you would still lose all your events if you accidentally unplugged the usb cable, even for a split second +1 on the UPS suggestion ... And another consideration, from experience, even with a UPS, you can get USB interruptions due to the power disturbance, as the power goes ou...

Isn't it just a handy way to map the "event number" to the actual time-date'd directory with the events in? Without having to dig in the database every time? I don't know how many parts of ZM use it. Similar to the symlinks for the cameras "by name" linking to "by number&quo...

Also: you don't need to split 6 videos into a pile of JPEGs -- you can feed the video directly to ZoneMinder. I recorded the output of each one of my cameras (motion jpeg video stream) into a file "vidfile.mjpeg" for testing/setup to give a known constant video input. It's easier to tune t...

Not sure what the permissions on /dev/random comment was about, perhaps @rockedge could explain -- mine are set exactly as yours. "755" would make /dev/random an executable file, which in itself seems a bit "random" ... to use the modern usage of the word. "crw-rw-rw- 1 root...

"For the want of a dot, the compilation was lost"

Not sure on the the CMAKE thing, but Linux uses /opt, or /usr/local (depending on your distribution) -- or both. It's up to you though, the whole point of being in control of your own OS is that *you* can make these choices -- I've got most user-added stuff in /usr/local, but OpenOffice went into /o...

"You've put it in the wrong box" :) PATH_FFMPEG is /usr/bin/avconv FFMPEG_INPUT_OPTIONS is for guidance to FFMPEG on how you want your video processing, regarding the input file FFMPEG_OUTPUT_OPTIONS similar for the output file from FFMPEG. It's not filled in by default as nobody knows wha...

I can't see anything obviously wrong with your syntax, although I use "Date" "Less Than" "7 days ago" (rather than "-7 day") Thought ... while experimenting, set up the filter how you want, and use "Submit" to see what events *would be* affected, wit...