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This is a fairly old thread but I thought I would point out my workaround since I've had to figure it out again after I patched my installation more than year ago. One reason you may get empty zmExport.tar files or no zmExport.zip file at all is if you have an empty zmFileList.txt. That in turn can ...

Sure, it was this post http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=22813 I am running mysql from the mysql-community repo. I have two machines that had this issue, first my intended production machine is RHEL 6.6 with mysql 5.7.5-m15 I then set up a Centos 6.6 machine with a minimal set of ...

Problem is solved. A more thorough search of the forum turned up the mysql configuration as the culprit. The sql_mode should be specified as follows:
sql_mode=NO_ENGINE_SUBSTITUTION

I have an installation of zoneminder from the zmrepo on CentOS 6.6 Everything seems to be running but I can't create a new monitor instance The monitor dialog comes up when I select "add new monitor" from the Console but when I save it, there is nothing in the database table for monitors and there ...