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See this thread for some suggestions on different settings for night and day.

See http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mp ... tsperchild

This limits the maximum amount of requests a child process can handle before dying. Once it dies all memory is released. Tweaking this value will limit the impact of any possible memory leak in apache.

Assuming all your zones are duplicated with one set called "Day-XXX" and the other set called "Night-XXX", here's a little perl script I've written that will switch one set of zones off and the other set on via a crontab. To switch from Day to Night on monitor 4 run: ./zm-modeswi...

Mopar93, There is no guarantee that your crontab entries will run in the order you have entered them in the crontab file. This means that the " /usr/bin/zmu -m 1 -E" entry might run before the "/usr/bin/zmu -m 1 -D" command and result in your monitor being disabled. You need to e...

Duplicate each of your zones and have one set named Day-XXX and the other named Night-XXX each with whatever sensitivity setting you want. When you want to switch to day mode use a script to: 1. Update all "Day-" Zones to active in the database 2. Update all "Night-" Zones to ina...

The Firefox problem was fixed in 3.0.5.

There are 2 different limiting factors when storing files, ones the disk space and the other is the inodes.

Try running:

df -i

This will tell you how many inodes you have used and how many you have left.

I used to have a similar problem, cant remember what the log entries looked like though. Turns out that mine was due to a problem with the firefox browser I was using. It seems that firefox NEVER closed any of the open image streams so the number of streams kept on building up until everything hung....

Its only a guess, but you probably need to install php5-sqlite.

[EDIT} Ignore that, I'm talking rubbish.

Have you configured apache/php to use mysql? Somewhere within your configs you need to have the following:

extension=mysql.so

You will also need to have installed the php5-mysql package