Cannot write to content dirs('events','images'). Check that these exist and are owned by the web account user

[apbb2]

Hi All,

I screwed up something but cannot figure out what.

Let me start by saying my upgrade from 12.04 to 14.04 was not smooth as /boot was full. So only a partial install was completed. Once I got 14.04 up & running Zoneminder was uninstalled. I installed with the PPA, upgraded the DB & now I get the error in the Subject.

I know there is a permission issue but have no idea where the issue is. Have gone over the upgrade instructions over & over with the same results.

service zone minder status gives this error:

Can't open config file '/etc/zm/zm.conf': Permission denied at /usr/share/perl5/ZoneMinder/Config.pm line 119.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/perl5/ZoneMinder/Config.pm line 119.
Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/perl5/ZoneMinder.pm line 33.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/perl5/ZoneMinder.pm line 33.
Compilation failed in require at /usr/bin/zmpkg.pl line 48.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/bin/zmpkg.pl line 48.

sudo service zone minder status gives:

ZoneMinder is running

Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks.

[rockedge]

Not a big problem. There are some things that the latest install/upgraded is not doing like the permissions on '/etc/zm/zm.conf.

As of Oct 3 2015, zm.conf is not readable by ZM. This is likely a bug and will go away in the next package

from:
http://zoneminder.readthedocs.org/en/st ... buntu-14-x

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sudo chown www-data:www-data /etc/zm/zm.conf

then make sure that the directories or symlinks "events" "images" and "temp" exist in /usr/share/zoneminder/www and are owned by www-data or the user assigned to the web server.

Also the install paths of the most recent packages are slightly changed I believe.
Hope this helps. Good Luck.

[apbb2]

rockedge, thanks for responding but found the issue.

events & images folder had root as the owner, needed to be www-data.

here is the link that helped me.

http://lachlanmiskin.com/blog/2012/06/2 ... on-denied/

[rockedge]

good work!