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First off, what a wonderful system ZoneMinder is!! I have ZM installed on Ubuntu and it works real good w/the PV-149...anyways, I can't seem to find the logs at /var/log/zm. I was troubleshooting why the purgewhenfull filter was not running when I discovered no logs. I no longer can access ZM from the localhost url. I have to use the dynamic dns url to access it...I assume this was due to changing the lan ip to static because I had sql probs at the same time. But it works, I can capture, review events, modetect works good, just those couple things.

Where do you have the logs defined to go in your options under the paths tab?
By default they go to /tmp.

My Ubuntu 7.10, using the 1.23.2 zm package defaulted to /tmp for the logs. If they're not there, try:

sudo find / -name zmaudit.log

Thanks, I found the logs. The zmfilter.log is empty and I have several of these in the zmaudit.logs:
04/02/08 08:27:01.032303 zmdc[5108].INF ['zmfilter.pl' starting at 08/04/02 08:27:01, pid = 6693]
04/02/08 08:27:01.470528 zmdc[5108].ERR ['zmfilter.pl ' exited abnormally, exit status 9]
I searched the forum and I think I dont have all the perl modules loaded...am I on the right track? I can execute the filter manually but I can't seem to get it to run automatically. TIA

OK, I ran" zmfilter.pl status" and it complained about permissions on /etc/zm/zm.conf and /tmp/zmfilter.log...so I "chmod 666" on these files and now the "zmfilter.pl staus" returns:

sysadmin@SENTINEL:~$ zmfilter.pl status
Can't locate MIME/Lite.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.8 /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.8 /usr/share/perl/5.8 /usr/local/lib/site_perl) at /usr/bin/zmfilter.pl line 82.

I am still on the right track of missing perl modules?

Yup-missing PERL module...for anyone using Ubuntu, the MIME perl lite module is named libmime.lite.perl (search for this in Synaptic). Still not perfect but I am getting content in the zmfilter.log that I can go by. RECAP:

PROBLEM: purgewhenfull filter not running.
TROUBLESHOOTING: (find!) check zmdc.log. Found these entries:
04/02/08 07:46:25.861127 zmdc[5108].INF [Starting pending process, zmfilter.pl]
04/02/08 07:46:25.864166 zmdc[5108].INF ['zmfilter.pl' starting at 08/04/02 07:46:25, pid = 5352]
04/02/08 07:46:26.324289 zmdc[5108].ERR ['zmfilter.pl ' exited abnormally, exit status 9]

zmfilter.log was empty

Ran zmfilter.pl from terminal and revealed permission errors on zmfilter.log & zm.conf. Changed permissions on these files to 666

Ran zmfilter.pl again, output:
sysadmin@SENTINEL:~$ zmfilter.pl status
Can't locate MIME/Lite.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.8 /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.8 /usr/share/perl/5.8 /usr/local/lib/site_perl) at /usr/bin/zmfilter.pl line 82.

Installed libmime.lite.perl using Synaptic

Ran zmfilter.pl and checked zmfilter.log

Good show on the trouble shooting and working out several errors
And thanks for the follow up