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1. Re: Fwd: Permission denied (Kinney Baughman)
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Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2019 21:14:16 -0400
From: Kinney Baughman <baughma...@gmail.com>
To: Motion discussion list <motion-user@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Motion-user] Fwd: Permission denied
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/tmp is another good choice.
On Thu, Aug 1, 2019 at 11:44 PM Ronnie McMaster <ronnie.mcmas...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> 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.
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
>> 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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