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1. Re: motion daemon not starting (Terry Parker)
2. Re: motion daemon not starting (Dougie Nisbet)
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Message: 1
Date: Wed, 16 May 2018 01:26:15 -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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You could try copying the file. You would probably be better off to
download the source code and compile and install that way. There are
instructions on how to do that, it's not very difficult.
On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 11:10 PM, Ralph Shamie <oldne...@att.net> wrote:
> Terry,
>
> Thank you. I do not have a motion file in /etc/init.d. I am running PCLOS,
> which uses rpm files.
>
> Do you think I should try copying this file?
>
>
> On 05/15/2018 09:17 AM, Terry Parker wrote:
>
> Here is the contents of my motion file in /etc/init.d/:
>
>
> #!/bin/sh -e
> #
> # /etc/init.d/motion: Start the motion detection
> #
> ### BEGIN INIT INFO
> # Provides: motion
> # Required-Start: $local_fs $syslog $remote_fs
> # Required-Stop: $remote_fs
> # Default-Start: 2 3 4 5
> # Default-Stop: 0 1 6
> # Short-Description: Start Motion detection
> # Description: loads motion and assigns privileges
> ### END INIT INFO
>
> # Ported to new debian way using sh and /lib/lsb/init-functions
> # by Angel Carpintero <a...@telefonica.net>
> # Modified by : Juan Angulo Moreno <j...@apuntale.com>
> # Eddy Petrisor <eddy.petri...@gmail.com>
> # ArAge <ar...@gmx.co.uk>
>
> NAME=motion
> PATH_BIN=/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin
> DAEMON=/usr/bin/motion
> DEFAULTS=/etc/default/$NAME
> DESC="motion detection daemon"
>
> ENV="env -i LANG=C PATH=$PATH_BIN"
>
> . /lib/lsb/init-functions
>
> test -x $DAEMON || exit 0
>
> RET=0
>
> [ -r "$DEFAULTS" ] && . "$DEFAULTS" || start_motion_daemon=yes
>
>
> check_daemon_enabled () {
> if [ "$start_motion_daemon" = "yes" ] ; then
> return 0
> else
> log_warning_msg "Not starting $NAME daemon, disabled via
> /etc/default/$NAME"
> return 1
> fi
>
> }
>
>
> case "$1" in
> start)
> if check_daemon_enabled ; then
> if ! [ -d /var/run/motion ]; then
> mkdir -m 02750 /var/run/motion
> chown motion:motion /var/run/motion
> fi
> if ! [ -d /var/lib/motion ]; then
> mkdir -m 02750 /var/lib/motion
> chown motion:adm /var/lib/motion
> fi
> if ! [ -d /var/log/motion ]; then
> mkdir -m 02750 /var/log/motion
> chown motion:adm /var/log/motion
> fi
> log_daemon_msg "Starting $DESC" "$NAME"
> if start-stop-daemon --start --oknodo --exec $DAEMON -b --chuid
> motion ; then
> log_end_msg 0
> else
> log_end_msg 1
> RET=1
> fi
> fi
> ;;
>
> stop)
> log_daemon_msg "Stopping $DESC" "$NAME"
> if start-stop-daemon --stop --oknodo --exec $DAEMON --retry 30 ; then
> log_end_msg 0
> else
> log_end_msg 1
> RET=1
> fi
> ;;
>
> reload|force-reload)
> log_daemon_msg "Reloading $NAME configuration"
> if start-stop-daemon --stop --signal HUP --exec $DAEMON ; then
> log_end_msg 0
> else
> log_end_msg 1
> RET=1
> fi
> ;;
>
> restart-motion)
> if check_daemon_enabled ; then
> log_action_begin_msg "Restarting $NAME"
> if $0 stop && $0 start ; then
> log_action_end_msg 0
> else
> log_action_cont_msg "(failed)"
> RET=1
> fi
> fi
> ;;
>
> restart)
> $0 restart-motion
> ;;
>
> status)
> status_of_proc /usr/bin/motion motion
> ;;
>
> *)
> echo "Usage: /etc/init.d/$NAME {start|stop|restart|reload|status}"
> RET=1
> ;;
> esac
>
>
> exit $RET
>
>
> This is on Debian 9
>
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Date: Wed, 16 May 2018 08:36:35 +0100
From: Dougie Nisbet <dou...@katsura.uk>
To: motion-user@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Motion-user] motion daemon not starting
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On 14/05/18 23:36, Ralph Shamie wrote:
>#
>
> /etc/init.d/motion not installed from synaptic
>
If you're saying that motion won't start *automatically* - i.e. on
system boot - then this file is essential.
Would your normal use to be running motion as root?
I always run motion as a normal user. And for reasons I can't recall,
I've always just used a cron job to check whether motion is running, and
restart it as necessary. It's probably something I've done since
motion's early days and never got out of the habit of doing. I think
it's because I tweak the config file a lot and do a 'killall motion'
afterwards then just wait for cron to restart it.
It's just a few lines:
#!/bin/bash
if ps -C motion > /dev/null 2>&1
then
??? ps -C motion > /tmp/.motion.is.running
else
??? nohup motion > /home/dougie/logs/motion.log 2>&1 &
fi
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