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I have to manually change state running after I reboot system. I am using Linux mint 20.1 and installed from ubuntu ppa. Yes I tried the sleep 10, in the /etc/init.d/zoneminder.

Sounds like it’s not starting the service at boot.

I thought that is what /etc/init.d/zoneminder was suppose to do. Not sure why this is not working. I even added the sleep 15 command in there after start()

Looking through the syslog I do not see
Apr 11 07:32:11 railcar44 systemd[1]: Starting ZoneMinder CCTV recording and surveillance system...
until I issue command
sudo /etc/init.d/zoneminder start

Then it changes to the running state.

It may run the service, I don’t know your set up. It clearly isn’t starting it at boot, which is what you need to tell it to do.

/etc/init.d is the old init system. Mint should have systemd nowadays i guess. You either have to create a systemd service starting that script or you install a native zoneminder systemd script. Something like this: https://github.com/ZoneMinder/zoneminde ... er.service

Thanks, I will check that out a little later.

Issued command
sudo systemctl enable zoneminder.service
and that did the trick.
Thank you for pointing me in the right direction Bluemax!