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by gbeddow
Mon Dec 19, 2016 10:11 pm
Forum: ZoneMinder 1.29.x
Topic: ZoneMinder won't automatically start on boot
Replies: 3
Views: 2171

Re: ZoneMinder won't automatically start on boot

After a LOT of dead-ends, out of desperation I tried:

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# crontab -e
@reboot rmdir /run/zm && service zoneminder start

# reboot
And ZoneMinder is finally starting up on boot.
by gbeddow
Mon Dec 19, 2016 2:34 pm
Forum: ZoneMinder 1.29.x
Topic: ZoneMinder won't automatically start on boot
Replies: 3
Views: 2171

Re: ZoneMinder won't automatically start on boot

Thanks. I followed those instructions, and in fact that's how ZoneMinder is attempting to start on boot, but it's failing. I take it the log info above wasn't sufficient to determine the cause. Is there any other log info that might provide further insight, or other ideas on where to look?
by gbeddow
Mon Dec 19, 2016 12:23 am
Forum: ZoneMinder 1.29.x
Topic: ZoneMinder won't automatically start on boot
Replies: 3
Views: 2171

ZoneMinder won't automatically start on boot

Hi, I was able to install and manually start ZoneMinder 1.29 on Debian 8 following https://media.readthedocs.org/pdf/zoneminder/latest/zoneminder.pdf However I'm unable to get it to start automatically on boot. For reasons I won't get into, Apache is running as admin, not www-data, so I've adjusted ...
by gbeddow
Fri Dec 16, 2016 4:13 pm
Forum: ZoneMinder 1.29.x
Topic: Problem installing ZoneMinder under Debian 8
Replies: 2
Views: 1814

Re: Problem installing ZoneMinder under Debian 8

Thanks for the help, much appreciated. I was finally able to track this down to a post-install script for javascript-common (dependency of ZoneMinder) that was assuming apache 2.4 (still running apache 2.2 here). With a bit of hacking on the script it finally installed.
by gbeddow
Wed Dec 14, 2016 8:40 pm
Forum: ZoneMinder 1.29.x
Topic: Problem installing ZoneMinder under Debian 8
Replies: 2
Views: 1814

Problem installing ZoneMinder under Debian 8

Hi, I tried the installation steps in these links: https://zoneminder.readthedocs.io/en/stable/installationguide/debian.html https://forums.zoneminder.com/viewtopic.php?t=24349 https://wiki.zoneminder.com/Debian_8_64-bit_with_Zoneminder_1.29.0_the_Easy_Way But here's what happens: # vi /etc/apt ...