PATH_LOG option being ignored

[BiloxiGeek]

In the Paths tab of Options I have /var/log/zoneminder defined. But all the zoneminder log entries are going to /var/log/messages. How I do get zm to log it's activity under the /var/log/zoneminder subdirectory?

[knight-of-ni]

Look at all the choices under Options -> Logging

Notice that you can set logging to syslog, to component files (e.g. /var/log/zoneminder), the weblog, and to the database.
All of these options are independent of one another and none of them are mutually exclusive from another.

If you want to log to component file, you have to set LOG_LEVEL_FILE to the appropriate level.

[BiloxiGeek]

Ok, got the logging happening to /var/log/zoneminder/ but I just noticed that after a restart of zoneminder all the zma and zmc logs got zeroed out. Is that expected? I'd rather do the work in rsyslog to rotate those in the OS if possible.

[sgurgul]

As far as I experienced zma* and zmc* logs will be properly logged to component log files only after server restart - restarting ZM service is not enough.