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The Fedora Core 3 ZM-1.21.3-1 is on the ftp
ftp://download.computerntelecom.com/pub ... 3/testing/
Any problems with the RPM please post them here in this thread.

I just finnished the build so I would be just loading it on my server as your reading this.
Really it's not much differant than the 1.21.2-3.4 that is there now and ready to goto the YUM server (that is soon as I sign the packages ).
Please let me know if you incounter any problems so I can get them fixed.
This also includes a script that checks for the proper symlinks for the events so if you had a monitor or few that could not export the video, this will fix it.
Regards,
Cordel

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im impressed to by the 3 of them, phil only announced an update then cordel has an rpm then for the wonderful live cd rdmelin gets it done too. do you 3 like work in the same office. I cannot thank you all enough for this. Great work, great app. Thanks

James

is it possible to run this rpm from the command line?

ThanK You both, But this is just what I can do to help. I know Ross and I enjoy it.
On another note so far I've encountered no problems with the RPM. I haven't had a chance to test everything, but so far no problems. I don't have X10 or any PTZ Cameras so some one else will need to let me know how that works out. As always after a week and if there are no major issues I'll put this up on the YUM server so those of you that have that set to update automaticly will see it in about a week.
Regards,
Cordel

If you mean to install the update, here what you do. Download the RPM(s)
wget ftp://download.computerntelecom.com/pub ... t.i386.rpm
and run this:
rpm -Uvh /path/to/rpm/zm-1.21.3-1.0_FC3.root.i386.rpm
Break down of the swithes:
-U update
v verbose (more detailed output)
h display hash progress bars
Just for those that may not know
Regards,
Cordel
PS I forgot, for those that don't already know the X10 script is seperated from the package to reduce the dependancies. If you want X10 support you need to download/update that as well an is in the same directory zm-x10.

Darn James I forgot to ask if that was Fedora or Mandrake. You can use wget to retreive the Mandrake RPM as well.
wget http://www.elltel.net/melins/mdk_10.1/R ... 1.i586.rpm
Regards,
Cordel

thankyou i updated bot my machines remotly over the webmin. worked great but on one machine it wasnt happy and wouldnt even rebbot from webmin, used the command of reboot -f and that sorted it. Is it best to restart after thiese rpm updates or is it not needed?

oh found an issue, do i need to update in order ie 1.21.0 to 1.21.2 to 1.21.3. only ask because i just did one from 1.21.0 to 1.21.3 and i get zm-web-prefix-title at the start of all browsers, and cannmot see the item to change in options?

It's probably a good Idea. My test box here and the one I have remote (To test the packages from the yum server for auto update) both haven't been rebooted since the update. But I have a cron job that reboots them once a month anyway.
Regards,
Cordel

reboot sorted both probs, cheers mate!! I thinks its wicked that i can upstae the s/w of these things from anywhere in the world! Another question i read somewhere about log rotation what is this?

I added log rotation in the previous rpm release for Fedora core. It will more likely follow in Mandrake once I finnish up some stuff for Ross.
Logrotate is a service that is part of the distro normaly. It takes the logs and renames them like zmdc.log, zmdc.log.1, zmdc.log.2, etc... on a schedule.
So every week zmdc.log gets rotated up (weeks 1 to 4) and this help to keep log sizes down. So if something happened last week that I need to check out I would look in zmdc.log.1 or 3 weeks ago zmdc.log.3.
Regards,
Cordel

how big are these logs then and does it automatically remove them after say 3 months?

How big the logs can be vari on if what you have your debug levels set to. If you have Errors then they can grow faster. Also alert and alarm stages may be added in to the logs.( usualy in the messages log). So it can depend on how much activity as well. For example right now the modem at my remote location is on the fritz again so every 4 minutes or so two lines are added to my zmdc.log. With this rotation the largest log I have is 200kB So this keeps things pretty tidey.

oh thats ok then i was concerned that these logs could end up being a couple of gig and robbing zm of recording space.

James