zmfilter doesn't upload any images

[qwe10730]

Hi,

I'm having a problem with zmfilter. It tries to create empty archives to upload to my ftp server. I've obviously missed a setting somewhere. Any ideas where?

Here's an extract from the log:

Deleting event 3476
Creating upload file '/tmp/Front Garden-3475.tar.gz'
Cowardly refusing to create empty archive! at /usr/local/bin/zmfilter.pl line 45
4
Tar error: Cowardly refusing to create empty archive!
Deleting event 3477
Deleting event 3478
Deleting event 3480
Creating upload file '/tmp/Front Garden-3479.tar.gz'
Cowardly refusing to create empty archive! at /usr/local/bin/zmfilter.pl line 45
4
Tar error: Cowardly refusing to create empty archive!
Deleting event 3481
Deleting event 3482
Deleting event 3483



Russell.

[qwe10730]

update.

I added a debug statement to the zmfilter.pl script to show the directory that it's reading the images from:

image path is Front Garden/3536/*.jpg
Creating upload file '/tmp/Front Garden-3536.tar.gz'
Cowardly refusing to create empty archive! at /usr/local/bin/zmfilter.pl line 45
5
Tar error: Cowardly refusing to create empty archive!
image path is Front Garden/3538/*.jpg
Creating upload file '/tmp/Front Garden-3538.tar.gz'
Cowardly refusing to create empty archive! at /usr/local/bin/zmfilter.pl line 45
5
Tar error: Cowardly refusing to create empty archive!
image path is Front Garden/3541/*.jpg
Creating upload file '/tmp/Front Garden-3541.tar.gz'
Cowardly refusing to create empty archive! at /usr/local/bin/zmfilter.pl line 45
5

It appears that it's using a relative path when it should be using an absolute path. I can't believe that this is a bug or else ftp upload would not work for anyone. So it must be something to do with my configuration.

Anyone got any ideas where to look?

Russell.

[zoneminder]

Hi Russell,

I've checked it here and the functionality still works so it's not a general bug. One thing I would check is to see if you get any more joy if you rename your monitor FrontGarden (no spaces) as I wonder if that is screwing up the globbing.

Phil,

[qwe10730]

Hi Phil,

thanks for the advice. I've tried taking the space out of the name of the monitor but I still get the same problem. I think the problem has something to do with directory path names. Clearly the zmfilter.pl script is expecting the images to be in a directory under the one that it is running in. However, I'm running ZM as a service and I have no idea which directory it's actually running in.

I'm sure I could get it to work if I added a change directory statement to the perl just before it tries to make the tar/zip achive. I'm not sure what effect that would have elsewhere in the system though.

Russell.