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I am going to: on my Gentoo system and install zoneminder from source.

I just tried messing with it some more. Apparently with the gentoo install, it's trying to store to /usr/share/webapps/zoneminder/1.21.3/htdocs/events and not /var/www/localhost/htdocs/zoneminder/events! Go broken ebuild! I think all of my errors earlier with manually building the install to get the ...

Yep. When I look at who is the owner of the processes (zmdc.pl, zmc, etc.) it is apache. Again, when a new source gets added, the folder in events is successfully created with apache:apache as the owner.

I'm completely clueless. Would turning up the log verbosity help? How would I do that?

can you create a folder manualyy in this directory as user apache? When I try to: su apache as root, I get immediately logged out because the shell for the user apache is set to /bin/false. If I change the shell to something, like /bin/bash, and then try to touch a file, it works just fine. Again ...

jameswilson wrote:merced does that topic refer to your 205 problem?

That topic is what I was trying to point you to for my latest problem.

Yes, the one in the main portage tree. I put the following in my /etc/portage/package.keywords: www-misc/zoneminder ~x86 Unfortunately, it never runs the zmconfig.pl script and the source is the only place that has the script. I just ended up using the ebuild from portage and downloading the source ...

Seeing as I don't see a "zmconfig.pl" script on my machine, I'll assume it's because I installed via a Gentoo package. I bet the ebuild isn't right. I'll attempt a manual install instead.

Thanks Phil!

I keep having issues with undefined variables. I think this is what is giving me so many problems with my initial setup. Basically, when I go to the zm.php page to login, I notice that the title says: ZM_WEB_TITLE_PREFIX - Login Where do I set this to what I'd like it to show? I tried in /etc/zm ...

That fix seems to work for me. Now I just have to figure out how to set up my Axis 205 to work with ZoneMinder.

I got it to work! :D Reading the user comments on this page from PHP.net I realized there might be something wrong with the way ZoneMinder is handling cookies. This was evident from setting $debug = true in zm.php and getting an error like: Warning: session_start(): Cannot send session cache limiter ...

I too tried both versions, hashed and plain, and it doesn't seem to help.

I'm also suspecting PHP 4.4.0, but I don't really see anything obvious from the PHP Changelog that points to what may be happening.

Disclaimer: This is the first time I have attempted to install/use ZoneMinder.

I too am having the same issues. It shows the "Logging in..." message but goes back to the login screen after that. I'm running ZoneMinder 1.21.3 on Gentoo Linux.

OpenSSL version 0.9.7e
PHP version 4.4.0

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Merced