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I am running a FC3 distribution and am having an issue with the zm console.

The ZM Console is telling me the zmpkg.pl deamon is stoped , but when I start the zmpkg.pl via the shell as root and do a zmpkg.pl status it says the services is running. The interesting thing is when I do a tail -f * on the log files and try to start the service via the console window none of the log files show any activity , but when I do it via the shell they do . Is there something I am missing with getting the zm.php console to access the zmpkg.pl scripts?

I would check the permissions on the log files and make sure that your web user can write to them as a first test.

yes , apache:apache and 777 on the log perms , at the moment I have Zoneminder looking in the /tmp dir for the log files

The ZM username and group is set to apache:apache, the path zm is looking for the logs is /tmp , the owner of the files in tmp is apache:apache and all the logs file have 777 perms on them , the owner of the tmp dir is apache:apache , but I have also tried root:root , and the tmp dir perm are 777 with +t , the zmuser and zmgroup are both set to apache, and the mysql db user is zmuser with password zmpass and all privildges have been granted to zmuser. I have the zm.conf file in the ld.so.conf.d/ dir with /usr/local/lib in it and have done an ldconfig. I originallyt thought the php scripts werent reading the log files myself , but su as apache and edited the log file in the tmp dir as apache with vi.