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Today's Topics:
1. Re: Fwd: Permission denied (tebviy...@protonmail.com)
2. Re: Fwd: Permission denied (Ronnie McMaster)
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Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2019 21:54:41 +0000
From: tebviy...@protonmail.com
To: motion-user@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Motion-user] Fwd: Permission denied
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Ok, Colin;
Ill give that a try, thanks for your help.
Tebvi
On 8/1/19 3:27 PM, Colin Law wrote:
> Please reply to the list rather than myself personally. I am
> forwarding it to the list, and see below for comments.
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> [<tebviy...@protonmail.com>](mailto:tebviy...@protonmail.com)
> Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2019 at 22:14
> Subject: Re: [Motion-user] Permission denied
> To: Colin Law
> [<clan...@gmail.com>](mailto:clan...@gmail.com)
>
>> Lol, sorry man, I actually have a screen shot of the terminal but spaced
>> off attaching it. Here it is.
>
> I can't copy/paste the error here to help explain, as you have posted
> a screenshot rather than copy/paste the text. The error is saying
> that it cannot write to the log file in /var/log/motion. The reason is
> that you are starting motion as a normal user and users do not have
> permission to write to that location. You could create that folder
> and make it writable to normal users, or you could change the motion
> config file to point to a location in your home directory for the log,
> or you could start motion with root permissions. If the install
> includes the scripts to run motion as a service (which will have
> permission to write to the log file) then you may be able to start it
> using
> sudo systemctl start motion
> and set it to auto-run on boot using
> sudo systemctl enable motion
> After starting it using systemctl you can look in the log file to
> check all is well.
>
> Colin
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Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2019 21:42:58 -0600
From: Ronnie McMaster <ronnie.mcmas...@gmail.com>
To: tebviy...@protonmail.com, Motion discussion list
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Subject: Re: [Motion-user] Fwd: Permission denied
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You can also go in the motion.conf file and point the log file to your home
folder. Mine is in the same folder as the video saves.
On Thu, Aug 1, 2019 at 3:56 PM tebviyozo--- via Motion-user <
motion-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> Ok, Colin;
>
> Ill give that a try, thanks for your help.
>
> Tebvi
> On 8/1/19 3:27 PM, Colin Law wrote:
>
> Please reply to the list rather than myself personally. I am
> forwarding it to the list, and see below for comments.
>
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> From: <tebviy...@protonmail.com> <tebviy...@protonmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2019 at 22:14
> Subject: Re: [Motion-user] Permission denied
> To: Colin Law <clan...@gmail.com> <clan...@gmail.com>
>
> Lol, sorry man, I actually have a screen shot of the terminal but spaced
> off attaching it. Here it is.
>
> I can't copy/paste the error here to help explain, as you have posted
> a screenshot rather than copy/paste the text. The error is saying
> that it cannot write to the log file in /var/log/motion. The reason is
> that you are starting motion as a normal user and users do not have
> permission to write to that location. You could create that folder
> and make it writable to normal users, or you could change the motion
> config file to point to a location in your home directory for the log,
> or you could start motion with root permissions. If the install
> includes the scripts to run motion as a service (which will have
> permission to write to the log file) then you may be able to start it
> using
> sudo systemctl start motion
> and set it to auto-run on boot using
> sudo systemctl enable motion
> After starting it using systemctl you can look in the log file to
> check all is well.
>
> Colin
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