zoneminder for Debian
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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
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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.
(thanks to vagrant@freegeek.org):
These lines in fstab could allow you to bind-mount an alternate location
/dev/sdX1 /otherdrive ext3 defaults 0 2
/otherdrive/zoneminder/images /var/cache/zoneminder/images bind defaults 0 2
/otherdrive/zoneminder/events /var/cache/zoneminder/events bind defaults 0 2
or if you have a separate partition for each:
/dev/sdX1 /var/cache/zoneminder/images ext3 defaults 0 2
/dev/sdX2 /var/cache/zoneminder/events ext3 defaults 0 2
-- Peter Howard <pjh@northern-ridge.com.au>, Sun, 16 Jan 2010 01:35:51 +1100
Access to /dev/video*
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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 <vagrant@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2011 13:06:56 -0700
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