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I am new to zoneminder.

I have followed instructions like in:
http://www.zoneminder.com/wiki/index.ph ... #Fedora_17

but when i type:
systemctl start zoneminder.service
I got:
Job failed. See system journal and 'systemctl status' for details.

So:
sudo systemctl status zoneminder.service
and I got:
zoneminder.service - SYSV: ZoneMinder is the top Linux video camera security and surveillance solution. ZoneMinder is intended for use in single or multi-camera video security applications.Copyright: Philip Coombes, Corey DeLasaux 2003-2008
Loaded: loaded (/etc/rc.d/init.d/zoneminder)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Tue, 07 Aug 2012 22:03:37 +0200; 27s ago
Process: 11401 ExecStart=/etc/rc.d/init.d/zoneminder start (code=exited, status=255)
CGroup: name=systemd:/system/zoneminder.service

Aug 07 22:03:36 gazela zmpkg[11414]: INF [Command: start]
Aug 07 22:03:37 gazela su[11421]: pam_unix(su:auth): auth could not identify password for [apache]
Aug 07 22:03:37 gazela zoneminder[11401]: Starting ZoneMinder: Password: su: incorrect password
Aug 07 22:03:37 gazela su[11423]: pam_unix(su:auth): auth could not identify password for [apache]
Aug 07 22:03:37 gazela zoneminder[11401]: Password: su: incorrect password
Aug 07 22:03:37 gazela zmpkg[11414]: ERR [Unable to find valid 'su' syntax]

Can anybody help me?

uname -a
Linux gazela 3.4.6-2.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Jul 19 22:54:16 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

cat /etc/fedora-release
Fedora release 17 (Beefy Miracle)

Have a look at this: http://synapticcircle.com/technopolis/

Helped me with no extra effort on my part.

deepblu, I m having the same problem. Were you able to resolve the issue? The web link provided by bb99 doesn't appear to work any longer.

Zoneminder service file has been broken for several releases.

You may want to try the Redhat Bugzilla for some info

Search for zoneminder, Some info here to help.