ZoneMinder won't automatically start on boot

[gbeddow]

Hi,

I was able to install and manually start ZoneMinder 1.29 on Debian 8 following
https://media.readthedocs.org/pdf/zonem ... minder.pdf

However I'm unable to get it to start automatically on boot. For reasons I won't get into, Apache is running as admin, not www-data, so I've adjusted ZoneMinder's configuration and set permissions on a few files appropriately to get it to run.

Here's a typical log during boot startup:

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2016-12-18 14:17:11.638670     zmpkg          3742     ERR     Unable to run "/usr/bin/zmdc.pl startup", output is "Starting server"     zmpkg.pl     
2016-12-18 14:17:11.599610     zmdc          3970     FAT     Can't connect: No such file or directory     zmdc.pl     
2016-12-18 14:17:05.010480     zmdc          3992     FAT     Can't bind: Permission denied     zmdc.pl     
2016-12-18 14:17:01.440610     zmdc          3992     INF     Server starting at 16/12/18 14:17:01     zmdc.pl     
2016-12-18 14:16:56.358400     zmpkg          3742     INF     Command: start     zmpkg.pl     
2016-12-18 14:16:56.148500     zmpkg          3742     INF     Sanity checking States table...     zmpkg.pl

One possible clue is the user/group on the /run/zm directory is NOT set to admin/admin, like it normally is when ZoneMinder is running correctly:

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# ls -al /run
...
drwxr-xr-x  2 www-data         www-data           40 Dec 18 14:16 zm

But I don't see any obvious way to control the way /run/zm gets created during boot.

Any idea why ZoneMinder isn't automatically starting on boot and how to fix?

Thanks,
Greg

[bbunge]

See
https://wiki.zoneminder.com/Debian_8_64 ... e_Easy_Way

[gbeddow]

Thanks. I followed those instructions, and in fact that's how ZoneMinder is attempting to start on boot, but it's failing. I take it the log info above wasn't sufficient to determine the cause. Is there any other log info that might provide further insight, or other ideas on where to look?

[gbeddow]

After a LOT of dead-ends, out of desperation I tried:

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# crontab -e
@reboot rmdir /run/zm && service zoneminder start

# reboot

And ZoneMinder is finally starting up on boot.