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A fresh install it shall be maybe this weekend.

It can be tricky enough getting things to function correctly without causing ones own trouble.

When i ssh into zoneminder 1.29.1 ( to do security updates and such ) using Ubuntu 15.10 (GNU/Linux 4.2.0-35-generic i686) I get notified of the new distro update/install New release '16.04 LTS' available. Run 'do-release-upgrade' to upgrade to it Is it safe to do a 'do-release-upgrade' to upgrade ...

it got late here, I'll give it a try in the morning and if it doesn't quite work I will do a complete install to make sure. Thank you for the clues :) and where to start. I would never have guessed the correct package names. Hmmm my very first distro was redhat with kde, that was an awful long time ...

Thank you for the direction to go in. I ran zmtelemetry.pl as sudo su and this is what I got back. Can't locate Sys/MemInfo.pm in @INC (you may need to install the Sys::MemInfo module) (@INC contains: /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/i386-linux-gnu/perl/5.20.2 /usr/local/share/perl/5.20.2 /usr/lib/i386 ...

this is on 1.29 updated to the mar3rd updates

when i run zmfilter.pl as root in a ssh terminal I get this

Name "Net::SFTP::Foreign::debug" used only once: possible typo at /usr/bin/zmfilter.pl line 940.

How would one go about fixing this issue?

Greg

need Lamp server with ssh?

Sorry, I was using the ones here and what I think I did wrong was after doing the update upgrde and then dist upgrade i rebooted instead of just following through. The second time i went back i followed through and didn't reboot until all steps were followed. https://wiki.zoneminder.com/Common ...

I installed ubuntu server 15.10 32 bit no problem and followed the new install with the 1.29 ppa followed all the steps but got hung at the install of zoneminder here is the response / error i got back Yes I tried a second and third time to install. apt-get install zoneminder Reading package lists ...

Hi, another simple way to turn on a sleeping monitor. xset dpms force on I like what you have done. I have a similar goal, I want to force the monitor on but have the montage pop up in front of the lock screen but also have it so no one can use the browser except to see the montage as it is in alarm ...