Zoneminder storage permission denied 36. b. Nov 24, 2023 · There were two separate problems I encountered after a clean install of zoneminder, outlined below. Just like sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /mnt/recordings/zoneminder/ Dec 27, 2022 · Add the new storage in Zoneminder -> Options -> Storage. 6 and Zoneminder from PPA One of the first steps the end user must perform after installing ZoneMinder is to dedicate an entire partition, drive, or network share for ZoneMinder’s event storage. If you aren't entirely worried about losing the filesystem, you can eliminate the reserved space. 04 with camera configured as ffmpeg mocord, storage set to h264 camera passthrough. I can't seem to get this container working. 28. You've only set write privilege to the "owner" of /mnt/hdd, the three numbers 7, 5 & 5 are user, group & other respectively. What am I missing? May 11, 2018 · Are the folders above the storage folder accessible to the ZM user as well as the Apache user? Using the example from another post, if the storage is at '/data/zoneminder' then the folder /data/ would need permissions of rwxr-xr-x or 755. as root just to prove your nfs exports/fstab are correct too. d:554/11 due to: Permission denied". 2. When adding a camera Mar 25, 2011 · I don't think it's a memory leak because it does still keep the pointers to the allocated memory. 3 LTS. One of the first steps the end user must perform after installing ZoneMinder is to dedicate an entire partition, drive, or network share for ZoneMinder’s event storage. 04 and installed Zoneminder to record my home CCTV. Jun 2, 2023 · As my pc runs on a kinda tiny 128GB SSD i added a seconds HDD as dedicated storage. Jan 27, 2020 · 1 Zoneminder Database. The reason being, ZoneMinder will, by design, fill up your hard disk, and you don’t want to do that to your root volume! The following steps apply to ZoneMinder 1. The log file shows the information [Failed to open video device /dev/video3 permission denied]. So it's mounted on boot as Sep 1, 2011 · Hello, i would like to make a symbolic link to a samba share of another linux system. Apr 18, 2021 · installed zoneminder today, added my cams, everthing looks good , just having issues using my external hdd as storage it will not show the free space on it after i added it will not record and the logs are full with permissions errors Jan 22, 2025 · Permission Denied. Direct SATA connection -- Good -- this rules out flaky USB enclosures and CIFS/SMB networking devices that don't know how to work properly. Dec 21, 2021 · Sharing via smb works with various combinations of ownershi and priviledges (775, 777, root:root, www-data:www-data) but i cannot manage zoneminder to use this storage - I've tried to add second one and switch camera storage the added one, and edit directory of default storage; in both cases I've rebooted machine and nothings changed. I previously had Zoneminder working on a Centos 7 server, but after doing a routine (non-ZM) update (which I think included a kernel update), the server would no longer reboot properly (almost certainly unrelated to ZM), only to some recovery mode; I could not find a way to recover it. Good. Feb 22, 2017 · New install and I am getting "Unable to open input rtsp://a. I'm testing with a single Logitech USB camera. So it's mounted on boot as /mnt/recordings. Say the drive is mounted as /2TBZM with a folder of events - use /2TBZM/events May 13, 2019 · I'm running Zoneminder 1. The only other difference from "last time" is that I'm installing from a self-built debian package (Francois Gurin seems to have disappeared, or at least isn't responding to my emails, so I'm taking his packaging of 1. Take a look at the attached images. Just like sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /mnt/recordings/zoneminder/ Add the new storage in Zoneminder -> Options -> Storage. 30. x Jun 29, 2020 · Ah, not what I was expecting! ext4 is a proper file system. 21 as a basis for packaging up 1. As my pc runs on a kinda tiny 128GB SSD i added a seconds HDD as dedicated storage. Despite having set the ownership and permissions of the directory correctly, it still fails. You've only set write privilege to the "owner" of /mnt/hdd, the three numbers 7, 5 & 5 are user, group & other respectively. 31 or Mount the new storage (formatted as EXT4) (in my case /2TBZM) Create a folder on the new storage source and give it permissions to read and write by the web server (Apache2 is www-data) Add the new storage in Zoneminder -> Options -> Storage. Feb 29, 2024 · I have recently installed Ubuntu 22. x Development Branch; ↳ ZoneMinder 1. 31 or Apr 26, 2006 · Ad the new storage in Zoneminder - Options - Storage. Say the drive is mounted as /2TBZM with a folder of events - use /2TBZM/events When adding a camera select the storage you want to use -> Storage -> Storage Area -> you should see your new storage drive, choose that one. x; ↳ Mobile Apps and Event Server; ↳ Docker; ↳ ZoneMinder Distributions; ↳ ZoneMinder Translations; ↳ Archive [End of Life Versions] ↳ ZoneMinder 1. 04. 1 Enable and convert MySQL to innodb_file_per_table for Zoneminder; 1. i mounted the network location and then i try to make the link: ln -s . thank you so much! Jun 29, 2020 · I can't seem to be able to make zoneminder use an external drive. Changing the group ownership of Just set up zoneminder under ubuntu (desktop). May 11, 2018 · Are the folders above the storage folder accessible to the ZM user as well as the Apache user? Using the example from another post, if the storage is at '/data/zoneminder' then the folder /data/ would need permissions of rwxr-xr-x or 755. c. And i placed myself in the www-data group. If you have multiple folder levels make sure permissions from the first all the way to the end storage folder allow www-data. I suspect it is when my Win 10 PC went to sleep (sleep set for 30 minutes) when the PC woke up Zoneminder had tried to connect (Firefox) and the web connection erred out. Ive got all the cameras working and want to mount my NAS as storage and can record to it using the methods below. installed zoneminder today, added my cams, everthing looks good , just having issues using my external hdd as storage it will not show the free space on it after i added it will not record and the logs are full with permissions errors Jan 22, 2025 · Permission Denied. 1 Ubuntu 14. /test': Permission denied that is on the network share itself. 22). As I already mentioned I think the increasing memory is connected to the packet queues but I still don't really understand under what circumstances they fill up. 31. Eliminating Reserved Space for the HDD. 2 Adding Permissions to allow Database Upgrade; 2 Upgrades. 32. . Ive used the same NAS mounted lots before for various media storage etc so thought it would be straightforward. Conf file permissions. Jun 30, 2015 · Hello, I have Zoneminder V1. Though it is debatable whether this is a wise decision or not. Zoneminder kept working, though. 35. 3 under Ubuntu server 19. apt-get install zoneminder does not set the permissions on the conf file correctly, so the first error, "Access denied for user 'www-data'@'localhost' (using password: NO)" is a red herring. Zoneminder runs, I can access the web interface and I've set up a monitor with the camera, but I get no video from it. 1 installed under Ubuntu Server 14. /test ln: creating symbolic link `. by adfytr » Mon Jul 25, 2022 1:32 pm. I try to access the storage Nov 27, 2010 · ↳ ZoneMinder 1. space free: Permission denied #103. Say the drive is mounted as /zmstore with a folder of events - use /zmstore/events 4. The Permission Denied screen showed when I tried to refresh the screen. I tried to fix the problem by changing the rights for me (root) to handle the video hardware. Everything seems to work properly except for one thing: I can't get capture images for the 'New Event' (but it works fine for all older events). 1. Jul 20, 2006 · There are no shared memory segments (or semaphores or message queues for that matter ) Haven't tried running it as root. Additionally i added a directory "zoneminder" and gave the ownership to www-data, like i read it on the forums. 33. 34. Hi Thanks for creating this docker for zoneminder. /1 . x; ↳ ZoneMinder 1. 04 with MySQL 5. kzvvfqslpotaxgcfqbnzkhzvqyemodqldsfnogsmfycmfylgggubottxouqkffeyjyezssbcf