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I've been using ZoneMinder since 0.9.11. I was working on installing a video surveillance system for my home for several weeks, trying everything I could find on the internet. Everything out there was difficult to configure or lacked the desired feature set. With
ZM 0.9.15 I think I've finally found exactly what I need. Thanks for a great product Mr. Coombes.

I have a few issues that don't seem to interfere with my use of ZoneMinder but as a guy who likes to have all the i's dotted.......

I'm using ZM on a Debian installation with kernel version 2.4.20. I access ZM with Mozilla 1.0 under KDE 2.2.2. I use Thttpd 2.23 for my web server. I have one camera connected to a WinTv video capture card and a USB webcam connected and working. I have another video camera in the box ready to go.

When I watch a camera in streaming mode, it only streams for 90 seconds and stops.
I have both the webserver and browser on the same machine. I like to keep a camera streaming on my desktop while I work and would prefer that it stream until I stop it. Is there a setting I'm missing?

Secondly, each time I start my browser, a sessionid file is created in /tmp. It does not get destroyed when the session ends. It's not a problem but they do accumulate. I'm not sure why this is happening either.

Thanks again

Hi Ralph,

> When I watch a camera in streaming mode, it only streams for 90
> seconds and stops.

I've heard of this problem in the past. I'm afraid I don't know what it is that is causing it. I've tried to reproduce it on one of my machines but Mozilla merrily streams on. My machine is not Debian however so there may be issue to do with something that comes with it. I think at present there isn't an option to force ZM to use Cambozola but if necessary you could install it (choose the .22 version) and edit zm_funcs.php to change the isNetscape() function to always return false to test it and see if that works any better.

> Secondly, each time I start my browser, a sessionid file is created
> in /tmp. It does not get destroyed when the session ends.

This I think is to do with the PHP session garbage collection and the following option specifically, in php.ini

; Percentual probability that the 'garbage collection' process is started
; on every session initialization.
session.gc_probability = 1

Basicaly this says that each time php runs there is a 1% chance that it will clean out all the old session files. So at some point you should see them all disappear, or change this value to be a higher percentage.

Cheers,

Phil,