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iconnor wrote: ↑Wed Apr 28, 2021 5:33 pm typically auth issues are due to timezone differences between system(db) and php.

I changed my new (complex) password back to the old (simple) password and the errors stopped. Are there password character restrictions?

lbm wrote: ↑Wed Apr 28, 2021 11:32 am Check the permissions on the file /var/log/zm/zmu.log, service must be able to write to it. (and the parent folder "zm")

Thanks, that was the issue for part of it. But it still seems to think that I can't be authenticated even though I'm in it right now.

I updated my ZM on Ubuntu 20.04 this past weekend to 1.34.26. The update went fine. I also changed my ZM user password this weekend as well. Now the log window is saying there are permission and auth errors. These 6 errors repeat every two minutes. Even though the error says that my user (me - marcw ...

I'm failing to understand what this warning means or what to troubleshoot: 2016-06-02 18:12:19.115440 zmdc 1520 WAR 'zmc -m 2' has not stopped at 16/06/02 18:12:19. Sending KILL to pid 28393 zmdc.pl I get these an average of about 3/hour on only this camera - Foscam FI9821W. I've messed with a bunch ...

bbunge wrote:In the never ending battle to make instructions absolutely clear, I have modified the WIKI for 14.04 as follows:
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Updated my 1.28.1 using your wiki instructions and things went perfectly, Thanks!

Never mind, I'm a moron. I discovered that zmu requires root. sudo zmu -m etc works fine.

After a lengthy hiatus I'm now finally able to properly tend to my ZM once again. Unfortunately, it appears that zmu won't or can't suspend or disable individual cameras. The help screen has commands for both --suspend and --disable but neither seem to work. No error (or success) is returned and ...

New ZM user here. While I've found that zmpkg.pl does what I need for stopping and starting ZM from a command line, I'd like to be able to script the enabling / disabling of individual cameras, also from a command line but am unsure how. Is this possible?