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donnied wrote:I just installed from source. I'm getting the same error from the filter for uploading files "cowardly refusing to create empty archive."

Is the ftp upload working for anyone?

donnied wrote:It's definitely not calling a file.

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~$ tar -cvf bob.tar.gz
tar: Cowardly refusing to create an empty archive
Try `tar --help' or `tar --usage' for more information.
tar -cvf bob.tar.gz bob
bob/
$tar -cvf bob.tar.gz bob.nofile
tar: bob.nofile: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

The error I get is from line 749:
if ( $arch_error = !Archive::Tar->create_archive( $arch_file, ZM_UPLOAD_ARCH_COMPRESS, <arch_image_path> ) )

I've been told that the relative path * in front isn't good, but I don't think that's the problem. If it were wouldn't it be specifying and invalid path and not no path? (And I tried without and it didn't change things.)

In 1.22 we see:

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elsif ( ZM_UPLOAD_ARCH_FORMAT eq "tar" )
	{
		if ( ZM_UPLOAD_ARCH_COMPRESS )
		{
			$arch_file .= '.tar.gz';
		}
		else
		{
			$arch_file .= '.tar';
		}
		Info( "Creating upload file '$arch_file'\n" );

		if ( $arch_error = !Archive::Tar->create_archive( $arch_file, ZM_UPLOAD_ARCH_COMPRESS, <arch_image_path> ) )
		{
			Error( "Tar error: ".Archive::Tar->error()."\n " );
		}

in 1.23 we see:

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( ZM_UPLOAD_ARCH_FORMAT eq "tar" )
    {
        if ( ZM_UPLOAD_ARCH_COMPRESS )
        {
            $arch_file .= '.tar.gz';
        }
        else
        {
            $arch_file .= '.tar';
        }
        Info( "Creating upload file '$arch_file'\n" );

        if ( $arch_error = !Archive::Tar->create_archive( $arch_file, ZM_UPLOAD_ARCH_COMPRESS, <arch_image_path> ) )
        {
            Error( "Tar error: ".Archive::Tar->error()."\n " );

use constant EVENT_PATH => ZM_PATH_WEB.'/'.ZM_DIR_EVENTS;

donnied wrote:Copying the old zmfilter.pl to replace the newer version worked for me.

donnied wrote:I just upgraded to 1.23.2-2 on Debian Testing. I previously had Zoneminder running and recently I decided to let Debian upgrade ZM. I had two black screens and couldn't get them working; so I thought something got fundamentally hosed when I upgraded so I decided to start over from scratch.

I got two black screens. I"m not sure what's going on but I have to

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chmod 666 /dev/video0
chmod 666 /dev/video3

every time I reboot the machine.

Also zmfilter can't upload images. I can make images and download them fine using the video option but alll zmfilter.log tells me is
"cowardly refusing to create empty archive! at /usr/bin/zmfilter.pl line 749"

donnied wrote: What exactly is the problem with permissions for /dev/video and the Debian package? Previously, I changed the permissions once and it continued to work; on the recent install I had to change every time I rebooted.