Zoneminder/CTU core CD distro

Post by **cordel** » Sun Aug 28, 2005 6:26 am

MySQL has by default its own user permisions. The default unless you change it is user root with no password. Just leave the password blank. See the documentation at http://dev.mysql.com/doc on how to set the password for root mysql user.
Regards,
Cordel

RedFlyer · Post by **RedFlyer** » Sun Aug 28, 2005 8:48 am

cordel wrote:You sould not need to unless there are other packages you want. the installer knows what is needed to do a base headless install of ZM. The only option that will not install zm is minimum.

Ok thanks.
This is a really nice distro and incredibly fast to install and setup.

Best regards,

Oliver
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Blazer · Post by **Blazer** » Sun Aug 28, 2005 8:32 pm

What are the advantages of using this over installing your RPM?

Post by **cordel** » Sun Aug 28, 2005 9:35 pm

The only advantage is that the changes requiered in firefox are included, and the scripts for my yum repo have been added. Also RHupdate checks my server for updates and not redhat. Once I finnish up my udate server so that I can have a few people help out, when a new package is released from redhat we would be able to test them out before posting the package to my servers. Therefore anything that might break ZM will not get updated (Like php-4.4 at the moment is a good example). Other than that, none. I made this CD to make things a bit more simple for the new linux user that wants to use ZM and for my own education since I don't really know anyone to teach me linux I had to learn on my own. So this is a product of that.
Regards,
Cordel

Post by **zoneminder** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 10:15 am

I am gradually catching up now and have added a link to the torrent for this onto the downloads page.

Thanks for all the work on this distro and I hope you find your ideal job very soon Corey.

Phil

Post by **cordel** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 8:51 pm

I am now also seeding the torrent with my local iso and Ross's LiveCD

Regards,
Cordel

jameswilson · Post by **jameswilson** » Tue Sep 20, 2005 6:41 pm

Corey I have set up 2 identical machines except that one has 4 inputs th eother 3.
Both are running headless init 3
Ones ctu zm and the live cd install
But the load of the ctu machine is about 3 times that of the live cd machine
live cd averages about .15 with noone logged on CTU av about 0.7
Any clues as to why??

James

jameswilson · Post by **jameswilson** » Tue Sep 20, 2005 6:43 pm

scratch that ctu does drop as low but keeps spiking? Is there other things running often on it that would cause the load to increase?

James

Post by **cordel** » Tue Sep 20, 2005 6:55 pm

There are still quiet a few packages installed and running by default from Fedora. I haven't yet compleatly stripted all the packages that are not required. Most of the services can be disabled manualy using chkconfig. When I started putting this together I still didn't know alot about linux so I was hesitant to stripout any packages that I was unsure of there porpose in life. Now I understand a bit more and know that more could have be done (next release).
You can of course stop the service s your self, and even remove the extra packages if your would like.

Regards,
Cordel

jameswilson · Post by **jameswilson** » Tue Sep 20, 2005 7:04 pm

will just stopping them help or do i need to remove them? And whats essential

Post by **cordel** » Tue Sep 20, 2005 7:47 pm

Just stopping the extra services is all you have to do.
The Services I have runing on mine are:
acpid
anacron
arptables
atd
autofs
crond
httpd
iiim
kudzu
lm_sensors
messagebus
mysqld
netfs
network
ntpd
sshd
syslog
xinetd
yum (runs once a night to check for updates against my yum server and update if a new version exists. It is off by defualt)
zm

I also think that Fedora has a cron job that runs updatedb every so often that will load the system while it searchs the drives and updates it's database for the locate command but should only run once a night.

jameswilson · Post by **jameswilson** » Tue Sep 20, 2005 8:00 pm

ok i will stop from booting all other serices. I just noticed another strange thing. My 1 input which is set to mocord and a section of 600 is recording sections of about 5400 seconds i have checked the monitor and cant see anything wierd. i was wondering if i have stopped too much. I will check logs too

James

jameswilson · Post by **jameswilson** » Tue Sep 20, 2005 9:41 pm

OK Corey I have stopped all i can but im still averageing higher about .5 now fairly constant with the odd spike but nmot as often now. As default using LVM on CTU zm and i doesnt on Livecd could this be the overhead. I notice that using software raid it has the same load or is it because of the different kernel.

James

*edit. I also notice that live stream via mpeg is not functioing have i got a dud disk?

Post by **cordel** » Tue Sep 20, 2005 11:20 pm

I looking into the mpeg problem now. I was doing some testing and I think I compiled the package against the wrong ffmpeg libraries. If that turns out the case I'll repackage zm and post the new version on the update server. Then all you will have to do is type yum update and your set to go.

jameswilson · Post by **jameswilson** » Tue Sep 20, 2005 11:32 pm

Good stuff let me know then when you know. Thanks

Corey do you use this as is at work for cctv or not?As in have you got a few 'out there'

James