zoneminder for Debian --------------------- There is one manual step to get the web interface working. You need to link /etc/zm/apache.conf to /etc/apache2/conf.d/zoneminder.conf, then reload the apache config (i.e. /etc/init.d/apache2 reload) Changing the location for images and events ------------------------------------------- Zoneminder, in its upstream form, stores data in /usr/share/zoneminder/. This package modifies that by changing /usr/share/zoneminder/images and /usr/share/zoneminder/events to symlinks to directories under /var/cache/zoneminder. There are numerous places these could be put and ways to do it. But, at the moment, if you change this, an upgrade will fail with a warning about these locations having changed (the reason for this was that previously, an upgrade would silently revert the changes and cause event loss - refer bug #608793). If you do want to change the location, here are a couple of suggestions. These lines would mount /dev/sdX1 to /video_storage, and then 'link' /video_storage to the locations that ZoneMinder expects them to be at. /dev/sdX1 /video_storage ext4 defaults 0 2 /video_storage/zoneminder/images /var/cache/zoneminder/images none bind 0 2 /video_storage/zoneminder/events /var/cache/zoneminder/events none bind 0 2 or if you have a separate partition for each: /dev/sdX1 /var/cache/zoneminder/images ext4 defaults 0 2 /dev/sdX2 /var/cache/zoneminder/events ext4 defaults 0 2 -- Peter Howard , Sun, 16 Jan 2010 01:35:51 +1100 Access to /dev/video* --------------------- For cameras which require access to /dev/video*, zoneminder may need the www-data user added to the video group in order to see those cameras: adduser www-data video Note that all web applications running on the zoneminder server will then have access to all video devices on the system. -- Vagrant Cascadian Sun, 27 Mar 2011 13:06:56 -0700