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has anyone used ZM on Suse 8.2

Please let me know if your ZM works with Suse 8.2


Mario

I have it working with a suse 8.2 box and a ituner spectra8 card works Fine.

David

Hi Mario,

I'm trying to get ZoneMinder to work at the moment on SuSE 8.2. I have not got it completely working yet because I have problems with getting zmc and zma to not give errors and crash. Errors are reported in the system log on the results from these programs and using this information and the source code I am trying to fix these final problems.

However in getting this far with SuSE 8.2 I may have fixed problems that you are having to deal with. Here are some of the steps that you may need to take. I'm assuming you are using/installing ZoneMinder v0.9.15 and are using the README.html file as a guide to the installation process.

1. Make sure that you have installed Apache (although SuSE 8.2 comes
with Apache2 I'm trying to get it working with Apache v1.3 first as this
combination works well with PHP), MySQL, PHP and Perl.

2. When configuring ZoneMinder give the user of Apache as wwwrun
instead of the default "apache". So the configure statement should be:
./configure --with-mysql=/usr --with-webdir=/srv/www/htdocs
--with-cgidir=/srv/www/cgi-bin --with-webuser=wwwrun --with-webgroup=www

3. If you are unable to log on to MySQL to run the zmschema.sql script
then a method of creating a good user is outlined at :
http://www.experts-exchange.com/Databas ... 97297.html
I had to create a user "admin" to run the script and create the tables.
I also changed the mysql.user table to allow privileges for the
new admin user.

4. In using "zm start" to start ZoneMinder, the "zm" script (which should
end up in /etc/init.d directory) will refer to /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions.
Remove the rc.d part and create the functions script using cut and
paste from:
http://lists.us.dell.com/pipermail/linu ... 14213.html
Don't forget to make the new functions script executable.

5. The zm script also calls the zmpkg.pl script. This script requires various
perl modules that may stop it from running. See the zmpkg.log file in
the log directory (/tmp by default) to find out. In YaST2 software
installation filter on Package Groups\Development\Libraries\Perl and
then select perl-Archive..., perl-Compress... and anything to do with
dates to install (if not already installed) as a start.

Hope this helps,

Conor

I've got ZoneMinder working with SuSE 8.2 now. In fact I've got it working on two boxes. I found with the installation on the second box that following the installation steps more closely there was no need to do the complicated setting up of an admin user outlined in step 3 above.

The problems that I was having in getting it to work were mainly due to running KWinTV to check the status of the cameras. After I've exited KWinTV starting ZoneMinder would result in the ZMC process crashing. I've got a Bt878 based card so it may be different for other video cards. The solution is not to use KWinTV but if you have to then remove the bttv module afterwards "modprobe -r bttv" before starting ZoneMinder.

On the second box I've got problems not seeing monitor snapshots even though alarm frames can be seen. From other posts in the forum this looks like it is because I'm starting ZM from the web interface and not the command line as root could be the problem due to file permissions.

Regards,

Conor