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I install zoneminder 1.19.4 on my slackware 9.1, with the guide from the site, and almost everthing works, except the zoneminder script zmpkg.pl.
This is the zmpkg.log:

Command: start
Executing:su apache --shell=/bin/sh --command='/usr/local/bin/zmdc.pl check'
/bin/bash: --shell=/bin/sh: invalid option
Usage: /bin/bash [GNU long option] [option]...
/bin/bash [GNU long option] [option] script file ...

GNU long options:
--debug
--dump-po-string
--dump-strings
--help
--init-file
--login
--noediting
--noprofile
--norc
--posix
--rcfile
--restricted
--verbose
--version
--wordexp
Shell options:
-irsD or -c command or -O shopt_option (invocation only)
-abefhkmnptuvxBCHP or -o option

There is a document in the Documentation section which describes the tweaks you need to apply to get ZM running on Slackware. It's for a much older version of ZM but much of it still applies. Basically you've run into one of them which is the format of the 'su' command parameters.

Phil,

replace
su apache --shell=/bin/sh --command='/usr/local/bin/zmdc.pl check'
with
su apache -c '/usr/local/bin/zmdc.pl check'

its on the zmpkg.pl file around line 142