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I'll give it a try for you. I can't promise how much help I will be but, I have no reservations about doing a clean install and testing anything at your request. In fact, I have been meaning to do one so I could update the walk through I did.

Ryan

Im not really sure what you are getting at but, if you follow the guide, it should work. As I have only installed it on a server, not a desktop, I don't know what issues you would run into.. if any. The ZM database is needed as that is where everything except the video/images is stored and should ge...

I have never tried it with a web cam so I probably can’t help. I know when I first tried to get things working, I had my Device Channel in my Source settings set to 1 instead of 0 and that kept throwing me off…. Just a thought.

Lee,

I totally agree with your disagreeing! That is, in fact, one of the things I was going to change when I did the update.

No problem, glad I could help.

I am planing to getting this updated tomorrow. When I'm done, it should be easier to follow.

I'm not sure I understand your problem. If you type in this: ln -s /etc/zm/apache.conf /etc/apache2/conf.d/zoneminder.conf You should be fine. All its doing is creating a symbolic link to from one file to another. The /etc/init.d/apache2 reload part will reload Apache so it uses the correct informat...

Note that the latest release is now zoneminder_1.22.3-8_i386.deb, and it has the "Monitor Presets" patch applied, so you can skip applying that patch from now on. Thanks! I will try and get around to updating the how-to to reflect that change and a couple of others this week. I will also ...

I know this can be accomplished via the command line but, for those who are not granted access to this, it would be helpful. It would let someone know if the power had been shut off to the box.

First, I would like to thank those that maintain this software and the live cd version. I initially did an installation from the live cd and it worked without any problems. 99.9% of this information came from other people so, thanks. Without you posting your stuff, I would not have been able to post...