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I searched for my problem but can't seem to find a solution (or anyone else having same problem). I have setup the email alert. however every so often (I suspect after reboot) the email alert settings are gone. Recently, one another serious issue , I noticed that my admin access was disabled. and th...

dunno, running ubuntu ? sudo service zoneminder status but I don't think that will tell you if the cameras are working, guess you would also need to check mysql and apache to see if they are running as well yes running ubuntu. Script i am writing, will run every 5 minutes and check if I am at home....

i have been using zoneminder on 64bit ubuntu. installed from ppa

exactly. no way to find out what 'current' state is.

I am writing a shell script which will change the run state of zoneminder (basically will start/stop motion detection on all cameras). That script will first ping ip address of my cell phone (connected on local wifi network), if it can't ping it then it will start motion detection. if ping succeeds ...

To reply to OP, it is certainly possible to call cell phone. Not very straightforward though. If you have asterisk installed and configured for outbound dialling, then you can have alarm trigger a shell script which creates the call file in asterisk with custom text. Then asterisk will call your cel...

Yeah, I know what you mean. You could create a patch file and just remember to run it anytime you upgrade zoneminder. In my opinion, logging failled attempts is pretty important. You may want to try and post something to the Feature Requests forums (inlucde the patch file to make it easy). Maybe it...

Currently if login attempt fails then there is no log. If failed attempts are logged in some file in /var/log/zm, then it will help monitor and prevent brute force attacks. I was planning to use fail2ban to block attacker IP addresses, however I could not. Here is a temporary solution posted by one ...

yes it worked.. ! it writes to apache error log..
I wish it was a setting so that I don't have to hack in the file which will get lost when I upgrade this..

I am trying to configure fail2ban to ban ip address if there are failed login attempts. I am not able to figure out where is that information logged.. it is not in apache log, not in syslog and there are NO logs in /var/log/zm (maybe because I have set the log level to ERR).. what would be best way ...