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It would be great if it was possible to make ZoneMinder not run as a background process, but instead stay in the foreground.

This makes running under systemd, s6 and in containers much easier rather than relying on PID files etc.

Is this at all possible?

That change in the newly released packages seems to fix that no worries.

Thanks!

I’ve tried an install on an Ununtu 20.04 container multiple times and a completely new VM today with the same results. I’m a bit confused too to be honest as I’m sure you are correct that this would be causing a bunch of reports so I’d love to know under what situation the file is not installed. Her...

The Ubuntu 20.04 package (I haven't reviewed others) does not seem to include the systemd tmpfiles config that in previous versions was located at /ust/lib/tmpfiles.d/zoneminder.conf This means required files in /run are not created on boot. I have also lodged this as an issue on Github as this look...