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It was actually the shared video limits that I had set... i removed them, rebooted, cat'd the shmmax file under the kernel config directory, used that exact value for shmall and shmmax in the sysctl.conf file, executed sysctl -p, and it's been running since Saturday.

Ok. So now that shared memory is set (to 1024 using http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=9692) my server just locks up after 5 minutes. Granted, it's running apache and as a media server, but nothing that should be using up a gig of ram. The server won't even respond to pings after 5 ...

Shared memory was part of it. I didn't think I needed to set it since I wasn't having any errors that explicitly pointed to that, but once I did that I then got the broken image link. Looked at apache's error.log, turns out it was looking for scripts in /usr/lib/cgi-bin/. Not quite sure why as I set ...

Ok, so I have an old Creative WebCam Instant. Couldn't get zm packages in ubuntu 9.10 to see it, so i compised from source. Still didn't work, so i looked around some more and stumbled across mjpg-streamer. Have that set up and working now, can view the stream at /?action=stream, howver zoneminder ...