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Hello.

Does anyone have any working examples of using symlinks with zoneminder?
I have the events and images directories pointing to symbolic links, ie:

/events/cam is really /media/cam
and
/images/cam is really /media/cam

I can create events with NO problem. But for some reason, filters do not work. Can anyone help me on this? Is it the symlinks?

Thanks

I'd also like to know any answers you find with this. I really would like to place a symlink to redirect output (ie, /var/cache/zoneminder -> /mnt/video/zoneminder) and I'd like to know how to fine tune purging once that volume is close to being full.

The instructions for purging are at: http://www.zoneminder.com/index.php?id= ... faq_faq=12

HOWEVER, these do not appear to be accurate when working with the system as it is at the moment. Could this FAQ please be updated appropriately?

Thanks much.

Found my symlink problem. You must be sure to chown the folders appropriately. For example, I had to do a `chown -R www-data:www-data /mnt/video/zoneminder` in order to get things to start working right again after mv'ing the /var/cache/zoneminder over.

Still need some help on this purging issue in terms of clarity.

why did he use the user www-data?
i thought zm runs as root. what use should i chown with?
zoneminder saves its video files to
/var/cache/zoneminder/
there are two folders, images and events

i created symlinks from both to /media/cam/

So what should the command be?
chown -R root:root /media/cam ?

thanks.

Oh I see.

I did ps -ef and saw that www-data is the process owner;
so it should be what was posted above.

okay thanks...

Problem persists....