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We are possibly having issues with janitors after hours. I set up an older IP camera & linked it to our existing ZoneMinder box to record the activity in the area in question after we close. It's working fine, but have run into a couple things that I'm more curious about than anything: 1. It's s...

Well, I have good news and bad news. I'm going to document what I found & did for the benefit of anyone who might have similar issues in the future and find this thread. This was uncovered while digging into the whole card 42 vs card 98 thing. I discovered that if I pass card=42,42,42,42,42,42,4...

Just a theory, but maybe things quitting/exitting is a sign of something fundamentally wrong -- so wrong, in fact, that syslogd/klogd or the equivalent part of systemd ... is exitting too . This means that the normal path of messages (that would be captured, filtered and filed according to your rul...

Yep - ssh session was disconnected. Couldn't connect via ssh again or even ping the machine. Didn't check caps / num lock. I did give it the three finger salute multiple times, even holding them down for about 10 seconds, in the hope of getting it to reboot cleanly. This is the first I've heard of t...

I recently installed on Debian (which is what Ubuntu is built on) and do not remember having to manually create the database. Maybe try reinstalling from apt to trigger the scripts again? Or remove, reboot, and then install? (Sorry I do not have better ideas - just trying to come up with something t...

OK, looks like I've gotta find and fix the source of this if I'm to have a stable system... I left the zmaudit.pl script ( https://forums.zoneminder.com/viewtopic.php?t=33055 ) running when I clocked out last night to clean up events that were left behind after destroying & recreating the file s...

FYI, the zmaudit.pl script finished and left several thousand events behind in the database that do not exist on the disk. Ran it several times & all it reported was several lines of 'Deleted 10 log table entries by time'. Had to create a custom filter to delete all events older than a few days ...

Thank you - running zmaudit is cleaning up the database as I write this.

I installed and used a very old ZoneMinder box. When it died last year, I installed 1.36.33 on a newer system. Unfortunately, I ran into an issue where the ]inode table got full ( https://forums.zoneminder.com/viewtopic.php?t=33019 ) and ZM was complaining the disk was full even though there was ove...

Is there a cap on how many files XFS can store? Research indicates 2^64 - 1 as the limit, which I would think more than sufficient. Given my inexperience with the file system type, I don't know if there's anything I need to set when creating the file system to achieve this or if it's automatic. If I...

XFS XFS or XFS. :lol: Anything I should be aware of or do while creating the file system? Have you actually used XFS for ZoneMinder? My research indicates that it's geared towards having larger files & suffers when there are many small files being saved. (And hey - I read it on the internet, so...

I've never tampered with the inode-count settings, but a quick man mkfs.ext3 reminds me that you can set this when creating the filesystem. Not sure you can update it/tune it later though ... Saw that option & found documentation about it that unfortunately states it is not something tweakable ...

Check that the time zone in ZoneMinder & the time zone of your OS are *exactly* the same... I had America/Eastern (GMT-5) in the OS & America/Detroit (also GMT-5) in ZoneMinder and had this exact same issue. Changed the OS to America/Detroit and it disappeared.

I had an old system with 4 x 400 gig IDE drives in a RAID with a reiserfs over top of it for storage. Then the motherboard blew up, probably due to our running 18 cameras on a system that had enough power to run about 4. Got a newer system and installed Debian on a boot drive with a 2T hard drive as...

I changed one of the log suppression rules, restarted rsyslogd, and confirmed that /var/log/syslog was again being spammed with these messages. Then I stopped the udev service and saw that the file was still being filled with these messages. Reverted the changes and syslog is again relatively quiet....