Can't start Zoneminder

[thelight]

I can't seem to start zoneminder. Running on CentOS6.

I have added a monitor, but when I attempt to start monitoring from the web interface it fails to start, with the error log saying:

2011-11-18 20:43:38.517720 zmpkg 1649 FAT Can't create missing temporary directory '/tmp/zm': File exists zmpkg.pl

I've looked on google and searched this forum and can't seem to find anyone with the same problem.

[thelight]

bump

[elbek]

did you try with:

chown www-data:www-data -R /tmp/zm

[thelight]

I get:

chown: invalid user: `www-data:www-data'

thanks
Simon

[clipo]

Try and disable SELinux

http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/SELinux

I had the same problem and its solved it for me, now I’m looking for a mod to allow SELinux to work again.

[dhanasekar]

I get:

chown: invalid user: `www-data:www-data'

thanks
Simon

try using ./configure --with-webdir=/var/www/zm --with-cgidir=/var/www/cgi-bin --enable-mmap=no --with-webuser=www-data --with-webgroup=www-data
because in squeeze distribution apache replaced with www-data but even though apache is used by some processes of squeeze distribution.

[thelight]

disabling selinux worked, thanks very much!