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Today's Topics:
1. Re: motion daemon not starting (Kinney Baughman)
2. Re: motion daemon not starting (James Whittenburg)
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Date: Tue, 15 May 2018 13:02:56 -0400
From: Kinney Baughman <baughma...@gmail.com>
To: Motion discussion list <motion-user@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Motion-user] motion daemon not starting
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What do you get as feedback on the terminal screen when you turn
"setup_mode" on?
On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 12:11 PM, Ralph Shamie <oldne...@att.net> wrote:
> Terry,
>
> Thanks for your reply. I do have that:
>
> ############################################################
> # Daemon
> ############################################################
>
> # Start in daemon (background) mode and release terminal (default: off)
> ;daemon off
> ;3/20/18 turnded daemon on:
> daemon on
>
> On 05/15/2018 12:13 AM, Terry Parker wrote:
>
> 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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Date: Tue, 15 May 2018 13:35:21 -0400
From: James Whittenburg <jwhittenburg4...@gmail.com>
To: Motion discussion list <motion-user@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Motion-user] motion daemon not starting
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Check the contents of /etc/default/motion. On my server running Ubuntu, I
have to change the line from
*start_motion_daemon=no *to *start_motion_daemon=yes*
On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 1:02 PM, Kinney Baughman <baughma...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> What do you get as feedback on the terminal screen when you turn
> "setup_mode" on?
>
>
> On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 12:11 PM, Ralph Shamie <oldne...@att.net> wrote:
>
>> Terry,
>>
>> Thanks for your reply. I do have that:
>>
>> ############################################################
>> # Daemon
>> ############################################################
>>
>> # Start in daemon (background) mode and release terminal (default: off)
>> ;daemon off
>> ;3/20/18 turnded daemon on:
>> daemon on
>>
>> On 05/15/2018 12:13 AM, Terry Parker wrote:
>>
>> 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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>>
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