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1. motion daemon not starting (Ralph Shamie)
2. Re: motion daemon not starting (Terry Parker)
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Date: Mon, 14 May 2018 15:36:37 -0700
From: Ralph Shamie <oldne...@att.net>
To: Motion-user@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Motion-user] motion daemon not starting
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I have installed motion 4.1 on PCLinuxOS. (It did not come with motioneye.)
I can run it from the root terminal and it saves images. But the daemon
will not start automatically:
1.
/usr/bin/ motion (executable file)??? ??? ??? ??? ???
installed by synaptic
2.
/usr/share/doc/motion/motion_guide.html not installed
from synaptic
3.
/usr/share/motion/examples/ installed by synaptic
4.
/etc/motion/ installed by synaptic
5.
/var/tmp/ motion.log installed but stopped logging here
after a few days
6.
/home/ralph/.motion ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ???
??? created this and copied motion.conf there
7.
/var/run/motion/
motion.pid??????????????????????????????? not installed
from synaptic; i created this directory; ??? ??? ??? ???
??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? pid file not showing up
8.
/etc/init.d/motion not installed from synaptic
9.
/etc/default/motion not installed from synaptic; i
created the file with
|start_motion_daemon=yes|
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Date: Tue, 15 May 2018 02:13:57 -0500
From: Terry Parker <terry...@gmail.com>
To: Motion discussion list <motion-user@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Motion-user] motion daemon not starting
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Do you have this in your motion.conf:
############################################################
# Daemon
############################################################
# Start in daemon (background) mode and release terminal (default: off)
daemon on
On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 5:36 PM, Ralph Shamie <oldne...@att.net> wrote:
> I have installed motion 4.1 on PCLinuxOS. (It did not come with motioneye.)
>
> I can run it from the root terminal and it saves images. But the daemon
> will not start automatically:
>
>
>
> 1.
>
> /usr/bin/ motion (executable file)
> installed by synaptic
> 2.
>
> /usr/share/doc/motion/motion_guide.html not installed from
> synaptic
> 3.
>
> /usr/share/motion/examples/ installed
> by synaptic
> 4.
>
> /etc/motion/
> installed by synaptic
> 5.
>
> /var/tmp/ motion.log
> installed but stopped logging here after a few days
> 6.
>
> /home/ralph/.motion
> created this and copied motion.conf there
> 7.
>
> /var/run/motion/ motion.pid
> not installed from synaptic; i created this directory;
>
> pid file not showing up
> 8.
>
> /etc/init.d/motion
> not installed from synaptic
> 9.
>
> /etc/default/motion
> not installed from synaptic; i created the file with
>
> start_motion_daemon=yes
>
>
>
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