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OK, finally got back to this today. The guardianship racket is thriving in Australia after having been borrowed from the US some years ago. Our officialdom has however refined it into an art-form to the point where a special representative we had from the United Nations told us that Australia is ...

Thanks. I'll be away from home on advocacy business til next Wednesday evening but will follow your instructions as soon as I'm back home.

That would be appreciated. I guess there is no option but to study up on mysql if I am to get on top of this thing. Presumably most zoneminder installers are thoroughly familiar with mysql before they tackle zoneminder. That said, a lot of the initial issues I had appear to be USB stick related as ...

I'm OK with apache but not with mysql which I've always found troublesome. The database issues I found with your files appear identical to the ones with the Centos 6 ones. They are probably fixable but only with a lot more information, bearing in mind that I'm not at all familiar with mysql ...

If perchance I decide to try Fedora in order to get ZoneMinder to communicate with Androids, what do I do with this 'Fedora users should place the line "exclude=zoneminder*" into their base' What FFS is meant by 'place the line "exclude=Zoneminder" into their base ?? Would someone kindly translate ...

In view of the apparent inability of Centos 6 to communicate with Android devices, I've had thoughts about scrapping Centos and possibly Puppy (if it has the same animosity to Android) and giving Fedora a try. Question is whether or not there is an alternative to MySQL ? I've manage to avoid MySQL ...

Well I think everything is installed but there are numerous things not explained regarding mysql which leads to all manner of complaints. Among other things I'm getting Access denied for user zmuser@localhost and complaints about Config.pm lines 92 and 119, zoneminder.pm line 33 and zmpkg.pl line 48 ...

Since the file I wanted was visible in the repository even though yum didn't recognize it, I downloaded it with links and when I tried yum again on the downloaded file it worked. Now yum zoneminder looks like its working so its a matter of wait and see what happens. I'm amazed by the number of files ...

OK, that fixed the network problem, next issue is that the zmrepo repository specified at https://zmrepo.zoneminder.com/ gives a 404 not found response. Can anyone provide a workable solution ??

There certainly is a network configuration button down at the bottom of the page that asks for a system name. Given how critical that appears to be, it would save a lot of hair tearing out if it was on its very own page. Hopefully now the thing will go online and find the requisite repositories.

Since I'm stuck for the present with the Puppy installation, I had a go at Centos 6 (since Centos 7 doesn't want to know about 32 bit hardware) installation from CD. That worked fine until I attempted to use 'yum' when I struck the 'couldn't resolve host' issue / broken network configuration. It ...

We still have a few issues, albeit probably only minor ones. Seems MySQL is still the main culprit This is the later of your two files, will try the earlier one again next as I thought that was OK except for missing apache which I generally have little trouble with. I've been through the ...

Looks like the dreaded USB stick gremlin is back because there is no way known the hard drive installer will run properly. I really need to attend to other issues right now but will burn a CD tomorrow and try again.

The first of the Puppy files came with hard drive installer, so trying that now. I did have an issue with apache not running on the USB stick but rather than continue with that I'd prefer to get Putty on the hard drive first and sort out whatever needs fixing then.

Thanks for the Puppy iso. Finally found some time to look at it, found It runs beautifully (at least Puppy does) from the USB stick but when I try to get zoneminder running I get 'Unable to connect to ZM db.SQLSTATE[HY000] [2002] Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld ...