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Posted: **Sat Apr 10, 2010 8:56 am**

Hello,
I am new with zm. My system works like a charm (debiam testing, zm 1.24.2 frpm debain repository).
I want to change the directory used by zm to store file.
So I created
/home/piratebab/zm/events
/home/piratebab/zm/events

I filled them with /var/cache/zoneminder, and of coarse change the DIR_EVENTS and DIR_IMAGES using firefox.
I restart zm (and also try to reboot).
The new events and images are now stored at the right place, but I am not able to visualise them.
Do I miss something ?

Posted: **Sat Apr 10, 2010 9:08 am**

Did you check the folder permissions?
The web server's user should be able to read, execute and write those paths.

Posted: **Sat Apr 10, 2010 9:25 am**

Thanks for yor answer.
the directory belongs to www-data, and write works. i can see the events in the dirctory. But when I want to view them using sm and firefox, it fails (work great with default PATH)

Posted: **Sat Apr 10, 2010 9:48 am**

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ls -l /home/piratebab | grep zm > /home/piratebab/perms.txt
ls -l /home/piratebab/zm | grep events >> /home/piratebab/perms.txt

Now open /home/piratebab/perms.txt and post here the content.

Posted: **Sat Apr 10, 2010 5:50 pm**

The important parts are:

drwxr-xr-x 4 4096 avril 10 09:46 zoneminder

and

drwxr-xr-x 4 www-data www-data 4096 avril 8 07:53 events

As I said, it is not a write problem, but I can not view the images nor video in firefox if I change the directory.

Posted: **Mon Apr 12, 2010 9:49 am**

Is it OK ?

Posted: **Wed Apr 21, 2010 7:26 pm**

I have created symlinks, and it is OK now

Posted: **Wed May 26, 2010 12:52 pm**

Hello,

I want to store my events and images on

/media/1/images
and
/media/1/events

so I have changed it in browser but it doesn't work

What more should I do ?

[EDIT] I have changed permitions for /media/1 and it worked but now I have another problem. When I want to see my pictures in web browser (events-eventname- stills) it only shows /zm/graphics/transparent.gif. What should I do to see them ?

piratebab wrote
"I filled them with /var/cache/zoneminder"
how can I do it ?

Posted: **Wed Jun 23, 2010 6:32 am**

I am having the same issue, have read a few posts but have seen no conclusive answer on simply moving the events dir

What I did:

Moved the events, images and temp directories from /var/cache/zoneminder to my second hard drive

Created symlinks in /var/cache/zoneminder to point to the new drive folders

ls -s /media/zoneminder/zoneminder/events /var/cache/zoneminder

Same for the other two

When this is done, all permissions are correct, Zoneminder does not record new events, just zero length entries and no old entries are viewable.

Am currently running a chmod 777 -R on the new Zoneminder folder to see if this changes anything

Posted: **Wed Jun 23, 2010 8:45 am**

well, no changes, still failing, full permissions, guess it must be the symlink that is the issue?!

Posted: **Wed Jun 23, 2010 3:01 pm**

You have to check two things

1)
I have made both (dont know which one is correct)
ln -s /media/VIDEO/events usr/share/zoneminder/events
ln -s /media/VIDEO/events var/cache/zoneminder/events

2) try to do ln -s to zoneminder/events

hope it helps
write if it did... (or didn't

)

Posted: **Wed Jun 23, 2010 5:07 pm**

thanks for the tips!

Have also added the symlinks to /usr/share/zoneminder

Still getting the following error:

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Jun 23 17:23:26 ZONEMINDER1 zms[13273]: ERR [Can't open /usr/share/zoneminder/events/3/12682/001-capture.jpg: Permission denied]

Here is the permission read out from my media directory:

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root@ZONEMINDER1:/media/zoneminder/zoneminder# ls -l
total 12
drwxrwxrwx 8 777 www-data 4096 2010-06-22 07:14 events
drwxrwxrwx 2 777 www-data 4096 2010-06-12 12:55 images
drwxrwxrwx 2 777 www-data 4096 2010-04-12 15:22 temp

Sorry, not sure what you mean with step 2, zoneminder/events?

Cheers again, will get this cracked!

Posted: **Wed Jun 23, 2010 5:44 pm**

Also, ls -l from inside the events folder, if someone could compare it with theirs, would be great:

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root@ZONEMINDER1:/media/zoneminder/zoneminder/events# ls -l
total 396
drwxrwxrwx 1708 777 www-data  36864 2010-06-21 07:35 2
drwxrwxrwx 4077 777 www-data  69632 2010-06-20 22:21 3
drwxrwxrwx 6560 777 www-data 126976 2010-06-21 02:55 4
drwxrwxrwx 1824 777 www-data  36864 2010-06-21 07:35 5
drwxrwxrwx 2952 777 www-data  69632 2010-06-21 07:35 6
drwxrwxrwx 2327 777 www-data  61440 2010-06-21 07:37 7
lrwxrwxrwx    1 777 www-data     24 2010-06-22 15:53 events -> /media/zoneminder/events
lrwxrwxrwx    1 777 www-data      1 2010-06-22 15:59 Monitor-1 -> 2
lrwxrwxrwx    1 777 www-data      1 2010-06-22 18:52 Monitor-2 -> 3
lrwxrwxrwx    1 777 www-data      1 2010-06-22 15:53 Monitor-3 -> 4
lrwxrwxrwx    1 777 www-data      1 2010-06-22 15:41 Monitor-4 -> 5
lrwxrwxrwx    1 777 www-data      1 2010-06-22 15:53 Monitor-5 -> 6
lrwxrwxrwx    1 777 www-data      1 2010-06-22 17:28 Monitor-6 -> 7

Posted: **Wed Jun 23, 2010 6:02 pm**

Where in zoneminder do You have error log ??

Show me ls -l in usr/share/zoneminder

It all should look like this ...

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/usr/share/zoneminder$ ls -l
razem 48
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2010-04-01 21:46 ajax
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   17 2010-04-01 21:46 cgi-bin -> ../../lib/cgi-bin
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2010-04-01 21:46 css
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2010-04-01 21:46 db
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   20 2010-06-14 13:02 events -> /media/VIDEO/events/

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/media/VIDEO$ ls -l
razem 20
drwxrwxrwx 8 marcin marcin  4096 2010-06-23 20:06 events
drwx------ 2 root   root   16384 2010-06-23 18:44 lost+found

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media$ ls -l
drwxrwxrwx 4 marcin marcin 4096 2010-06-23 19:58 VIDEO

to do it You should :

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ln -s /media/VIDEO/events /usr/share/zoneminder/events
mkdir /media/VIDEO/events
chmod 777 /media/VIDEO
chmod 777 /media/VIDEO/events

You wrote :

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root@ZONEMINDER1:/media/zoneminder/zoneminder/events# ls -l
total 396
drwxrwxrwx 1708 777 www-data  36864 2010-06-21 07:35 2
drwxrwxrwx 4077 777 www-data  69632 2010-06-20 22:21 3
drwxrwxrwx 6560 777 www-data 126976 2010-06-21 02:55 4
drwxrwxrwx 1824 777 www-data  36864 2010-06-21 07:35 5
drwxrwxrwx 2952 777 www-data  69632 2010-06-21 07:35 6
drwxrwxrwx 2327 777 www-data  61440 2010-06-21 07:37 7
lrwxrwxrwx    1 777 www-data     24 2010-06-22 15:53 events -> /media/zoneminder/events

I think it is not correct. On mounted zoneminder You made link to the same partition (?). It looks strage ...

Posted: **Wed Jun 23, 2010 7:20 pm**

ls -l in usr/share/zoneminder

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root@ZONEMINDER1:/media/zoneminder/zoneminder/events# ls -l /usr/share/zoneminder
total 48
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2010-06-06 15:59 ajax
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   17 2010-06-06 15:59 cgi-bin -> ../../lib/cgi-bin
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2010-06-06 15:59 css
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2010-06-06 15:59 db
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   35 2010-06-23 17:22 events -> /media/zoneminder/zoneminder/events
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2010-06-06 15:59 graphics
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   35 2010-06-23 17:22 images -> /media/zoneminder/zoneminder/images
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2010-06-06 15:59 includes
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3717 2010-04-12 15:22 index.php
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2010-06-06 15:59 js
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2010-06-06 15:59 lang
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2010-06-06 15:59 skins
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2010-04-12 15:22 sounds
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   33 2010-06-23 17:22 temp -> /media/zoneminder/zoneminder/temp
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2010-06-06 15:59 tools
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2010-04-12 15:22 views

Ignore the last line on my last post

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lrwxrwxrwx    1 777 www-data     24 2010-06-22 15:53 events -> /media/zoneminder/events

It was a left over symlink from me messing!

My "zoneminder" directory in "media" is the equivalent of your "VIDEO" directory, so all the symlinks seem the same there.

WOOOAHHH, cancel all of the above!!!!

I just ran the following from your last post

chmod 777 /media/zoneminder
chmod 777 /media/zoneminder/zoneminder
chmod 777 /media/zoneminder/zoneminder/events

No idea which one fixed it, but must have been one of the top level directories, as I had deffo changed the permissions on everything else.

Thank you so much marcio for getting me in the right direction! I can now view old events and see new events being recorded, great

Thanks!!

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