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What do I need to do, to delete event files on the harddrive when I delete the events from the web generated events?

I've been manually "rm -rf" files. I've tried fudging with the config for fast deletes and it hasn't changed anything.

Thanks

Hi John,

Fast deletes lets zmaudit delete the files physically a little later on so if that's on they will disappear a short while after. If you have it off (?) then the files should vanish immediately. Do you see any errors in any of the log files?

Phil,

I have the same problem with .9.15 and I have no errors in the log files.

I have the checkbox unselected for fast deletes.

Please let me know if there is something else I should look at or do.

Thanks,

-Steve

Ditto, I dont see anythign in the logs... but I'm guessing it has something to do with permissions.

my webuser and webgroup as configured for zoneminder is "nobody" the installation is all going into my user directory .../public_html/~john

the events generated are owned by nobody, do you think the program is not deleting the events due to a owndership issue?

Originally, I thought it might be permissions as well but the program is CREATING the files and should have permission to delete them. Just to be sure, I went and changed an event directory and all files within it to 777 permissions and then tried to delete it and it still didn't remove the physical files.

Any other ideas?