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Issues with automatic uploading - sftp
Posted: Thu Aug 13, 2015 8:56 am
by darmach
Hi,
I recently started using zoneminder, on Debian Jessie with USB webcams.
One of the issue I encountered is not being able to upload to external server via sftp.
I have enabled debug logging in options, and receiving following errors:
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2015-08-13 10:51:37.595370 zmdc 31816 ERR 'zmfilter.pl ' exited abnormally, exit status 9 zmdc.pl
2015-08-13 10:51:36.537490 zmfilter 31963 INF Uploading to 456.456.456:1212 using SFTP zmfilter.pl
2015-08-13 10:51:36.311340 zmfilter 31963 INF Creating upload file '/tmp/Hall-1-50.tar', 155 files zmfilter.pl
2015-08-13 10:51:31.132340 zmfilter 31963 INF Scanning for events zmfilter.pl
2015-08-13 10:51:30.104470 zmdc 31963 INF 'zmfilter.pl' started at 15/08/13 10:51:30 zmdc.pl
2015-08-13 10:51:30.102540 zmdc 31816 INF 'zmfilter.pl' starting at 15/08/13 10:51:30, pid = 31963 zmdc.pl
2015-08-13 10:51:30.056130 zmdc 31816 INF Starting pending process, zmfilter.pl zmdc.pl
2015-08-13 10:51:25.895840 zmdc 31816 ERR 'zmfilter.pl ' exited abnormally, exit status 9 zmdc.pl
2015-08-13 10:51:24.884480 zmfilter 31931 INF Uploading to 456.456.456:1212 using SFTP zmfilter.pl
2015-08-13 10:51:24.669750 zmfilter 31931 INF Creating upload file '/tmp/Hall-1-50.tar', 155 files zmfilter.pl
2015-08-13 10:51:19.480760 zmfilter 31931 INF Scanning for events zmfilter.pl
2015-08-13 10:51:18.541370 zmdc 31931 INF 'zmfilter.pl' started at 15/08/13 10:51:18 zmdc.pl
2015-08-13 10:51:18.541360 zmdc 31816 INF 'zmfilter.pl' starting at 15/08/13 10:51:18, pid = 31931 zmdc.pl
2015-08-13 10:51:18.493400 zmdc 31816 INF Starting pending process, zmfilter.pl zmdc.pl
The sftp connection works outside of the zoneminder - with same credentials I've entered in zoneminder options.
I found that this error is often caused by missing dependency: libnet-sftp-foreign-perl , but I have this package installed.
Can anyone advise?
Is it possible to enable higher level of logging (this doesnt look like debug at all)?
Re: Issues with automatic uploading - sftp
Posted: Sat Aug 15, 2015 11:47 am
by darmach
Quick update:
From the server point of view I see that sftp user does log in:
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Aug 15 12:44:04 dXXXX2 sshd[6850]: Accepted password for sftpuser from 178.138.315.210 port 60995 ssh2
Aug 15 12:44:04 dXXXX2 sshd[6850]: pam_unix(sshd:session): session opened for user user by (uid=0)
Aug 15 12:44:04 dXXXX2 sshd[6850]: pam_unix(sshd:session): session closed for user user
But no files are being uploaded.
Re: Issues with automatic uploading - sftp
Posted: Mon Aug 17, 2015 7:22 am
by darmach
Guys, noone here uses sftp uploading?
Re: Issues with automatic uploading - sftp
Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2015 3:09 pm
by iconnor
Which version?
I seem to recall that jessie comes with 1.26.5.
Your next step would be running the command from a command prompt so that you can see error output.
Re: Issues with automatic uploading - sftp
Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2015 3:38 pm
by darmach
I have 1.28.1
Re: Issues with automatic uploading - sftp
Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2015 6:51 pm
by iconnor
Ok, so what do you get if you go to a command line and do
sudo zmfilter.pl
Re: Issues with automatic uploading - sftp
Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2015 7:39 pm
by darmach
I did enable autoupload filter (I disabled is before, as it did generate a lot of logons to the remote server, each time I was spammed with logon info emails), with debug logging disabled (shall I enable it?) I get this output:
....And it seems that zmfilter output "looks too spamy for a new user, please remove..."
I did send you the output via email, maybe you could post it here for the others to see?
Re: Issues with automatic uploading - sftp
Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2015 8:30 pm
by iconnor
I think the relevant bit is
Insecure argument '/monitoring' on 'stat' method call while running with -T switch at /usr/bin/zmfilter.pl line 824.
and then it hangs up. Google isn't returning any results...
might have to post a bug to the net::SFTP maintainers
Re: Issues with automatic uploading - sftp
Posted: Fri Aug 21, 2015 2:51 am
by darmach
Well, the sftp does work outside of zoneminder without problems. User is jailed into home directory on remote host, and monitoring directory exist in there (right now with 777 permissions)
Maybe I've entered the path into configuration wrong? UPLOAD_REM_DIR is set to /monitoring as I thought it will use jailed home dir as a root for the directory structure on that user, should I entere here full path?
Re: Issues with automatic uploading - sftp
Posted: Sun Aug 23, 2015 12:10 pm
by darmach
iconnor wrote:I think the relevant bit is
Insecure argument '/monitoring' on 'stat' method call while running with -T switch at /usr/bin/zmfilter.pl line 824.
and then it hangs up. Google isn't returning any results...
might have to post a bug to the net::SFTP maintainers
is net::SFTP a perl module? A newbie question - but where to file such bug?
Re: Issues with automatic uploading - sftp
Posted: Sun Aug 23, 2015 8:08 pm
by darmach
I found out (after a chat with net::SFTP maintaner) that net::SFTP::Foreign is being sued in here. And it seems that someone opened this issue 2 days ago
https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=106559