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Hi I am running 4 Axis cams (320x240) with an Athlon 2200 and 1GB RAM in modect mode overnight (23:00 - 9:00)

Zoneminder is great for this task, but recently almost every morning when i try to acces the interface I can't get to main ZM page.

When I do a
ps waux | grep zm

I see a process
/usr/bin/perl -wT /usr/local/bin/zmdc.pl status
which has stalled
once I kill it I get the ZM mainpage and everything is working again.

ZM_WATCH_CHECK_INTERVAL is set to 100

What does this command do?
Can I stop it some how?
Any other hints ?

zmdc.pl is the daemon controller. It has it's own log zmdc.log which might have further information in it.

Phil,

Just wondering, how are you setting up 'recording' time(s)? Are you doing it manually, or are you using a cron script of some sort? If you are using a cron script could you show me the command?

Thanks

via cron deamon this my crontab -l

30 23 * * 0-4 / usr/local/bin/zmpkg.pl modectall
0 0 * * 5-6 /usr/local/bin/zmpkg.pl modectall
0 9 * * * /usr/local/bin/zmpkg.pl neutral
00 12 * * * /root/delete_old_events

modectall and neutral are predifined in ZM

Just as an update

I think I have managed to fix my problem:
It seem I was running the switching commands at times which were coliding with zmdc.pl status
this produced so called "race conditions".
I rejusted my intervals and changed my switching times, so they can't colide anymore.
No more problems since then.