#zoneminder

anyone alive?

hi kni

yes at the official wiki

but i have issue with tar module

morning

Hello

hi

zm stopped recording as of 13th.

i still have enough space available, how to troubleshoot this?

Did you check the logs? Have you restarted the services to see if it starts recording again?

hans109h, are logs at /var/log/zoneminder ?

chandoo, it depends on where you have set them up to be. There is a built in log viewer in ZM, look in the upper right hand corner of the main page.

'zmc -m 1' has not stopped at 16/11/13 16:34:05. Sending KILL to pid 6132

as of that date it stopped recording.

What are the chances that on the 13th you updated your database package?

Titler: #514178 • Fedora Project Pastebin

log link

you mean mariadb?

I don't remember updating anything

yeah, which ever db you're using...I ask because usually when doing an update of the db package it will shut down zm and not restart it, or it won't shut down zm and zm will crash

were you able to view live feeds during this time?

live feed is good

i am accessing live feed while i am away till this date

Have you restarted ZM to confirm that recording is currently happening?

i will do that now

Watch the logs after the restart, you might find something helpful.

started successfully. no error in logs

What are you using as a storage location? HDD? NAS?

local hdd

i still have 64GB available

how to clear all the events in one shot from command line?

any idea on this "ERRReferenceError: mmove is not defined"

I am accessing view=montagereview

I would recommend using the filter window and creating a filter that purges all of the events based on a criteria.

you could also delete the storage directories/files, and then at some point (assuming you have it setup to do so) zm will scan the directories and update the db to reflect that those files aren't there--I wouldn't recommend such a process

hans109h, can you give an example for filter purge, any link

i found it

Titler: Filtering Events — ZoneMinder documentation

What version of zm are you running?

v1.30.0

hans109h, i use precisely that ... rm -rfv events/blahblah

then zmaudit.pl

which will run every 10 mins or so anyway

and it marries up db entries with actual events ... and clears out the missing ones from the dnb

db

jzaw, that's why I say you can, however in the past I've run into issues with it not working perfectly

yeah you have to make sure you dont remove the actual events dirs 1 2 3 4 etc and their symlinks

but deeper in you can

though if you stop zm

rm EVERYTHING inside the events dir

It was a long time ago, I think I ran into issues because of how my storage is fused.

If do accidentally remove the parent folder and/or the symlink, then restarting zoneminder will recreate them

then restart zm ... imsmr ... thta will simply recreate the structures ... and clear out the db entries

yeah knnniggett ditto

I done just that quite a few times... only to discover that zoneminer puts them back

hehe

Zoneminder is one hell of a package, you all deserve a pat on the back.

Thank you. It's nice to get compliments from time to time.

Zoneminder is a community project though so I don't want to sound like I'm taking any of the glory. All the guys who hang out here regularly have contributed in one form or another.

** even if it was to fix user error :-) **

morning

jzaw, i will try your solution

chandoo, if you want to delete on a first in first out basis as you disk fills

keeping a certain % free

look at the purge_when_full filter

you can edit that and save it

jzaw, i did that , i dont see it is clearing anything

is the filter enabled

it will have a * against it

if it is

i had executed it

It's probably set to run as a background task and will take a while before you see the change on disk

You can save it as a different name and remove the background task setting and it will run immediately

what hans109h said

aiui zmupdate runs every 10 mins ?

also .... remember to remove enough events each running to actually exceed the number that is created

ie if youre creating 100 events in 10 mins ... remove at least 100 ... else it will over fill and purge_when_full wont be enough to prevent the disk over filling

jzaw, so is my last execute event running? how to check that.

sorry execute filter

ps aux | grep zmupdate ... not sure what the process is called ... ive never had to look for it

zmfilter?

ive got these two

that are possibles

www-data 30427 0.0 0.4 97008 27532 ? S Dec22 0:11 /usr/bin/perl -wT /usr/bin/zmfilter.pl