ZoneMinder Forums

ahh, that was my problem.

I had no zmvideo.log

Once I created it and set the permissions I was able to create a video no problems.

When I try and generate a video from an event I get a message "Video Generation Failed!" but there doesn't seem to be anything in the logs.

Where should I start looking to find out what is wrong??

Ok I installed MIME and its dependancies but I still get the error Can't locate MIME/Entity.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl /usr ...

Ok, I think I have most things set up and it all seems to be running. I have added one monitor which is showing up all green but there is no montage link on the page to see the images?? EDIT: Oh and this is showing in the zmdc.log Starting pending process, zmfilter.pl 'zmfilter.pl' started at 04/10 ...

found it

for some reason it could not create the zmdc.log file so I created it manually and set it to 777

Now it starts ok.

just need to work out how to get the rest working now

Can someone point me to which files are giving me this error when I try and start the console?? Executing: /usr/local/bin/zmdc.pl start zmupdate.pl -c Can't open log file: Permission denied at /usr/local/bin/zmdc.pl line 153. Can't connect: No such file or directory at /usr/local/bin/zmdc.pl line ...