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Today's Topics:
1. Re: systemctl doesn't start motion (Kinney Baughman)
2. Re: systemctl doesn't start motion (rmbusy)
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Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2020 10:42:15 -0400
From: Kinney Baughman <baughma...@gmail.com>
To: Motion discussion list <motion-user@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Motion-user] systemctl doesn't start motion
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I haven't been able to start motion as a service for a couple three months.
I have to remember to start it manually each time I reboot.
Maybe things have changed but from your email, it doesn't appear to have.
On Mon, Jul 20, 2020 at 5:17 AM Prok <prokh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> I installed motion (ver. 4.2.2) on Xubuntu 20.04 LTS from Synaptic
> manager successfully.
> Made all necessary settings and when I start motion from terminal it
> works OK, writes video-files from two cameras on my HDD.
>
> But it doesn't start motion after reboot my PC.
>
> I set: "start_motion_daemon=yes" in /etc/default/motion file
> and "daemon on" in /home/vdo/.motion/motion.conf
> then I enabled it in terminal: sudo systemctl enable motion
> reboot PC.
>
> But no video-files wrote on my HDD, and /home/vdo/.motion/motion.log
> doesn't have new entries after rebooting.
>
> vdo@scorpio:~$ systemctl status motion
> get me this result:
>
> ? motion.service - LSB: Start Motion detection
> Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/motion; generated)
> Active: active (exited) since Mon 2020-07-20 11:37:33 MSK; 32min ago
> Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)
> Process: 715 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/motion start (code=exited,
> status=0/SUCCESS)
>
> jul 20 11:37:33 scorpio systemd[1]: Starting LSB: Start Motion detection...
> jul 20 11:37:33 scorpio motion[715]: * Starting motion detection daemon
> motion
> jul 20 11:37:33 scorpio motion[715]: ...done.
> jul 20 11:37:33 scorpio systemd[1]: Started LSB: Start Motion detection.
>
> If I got it right, systemctl tried start motion, but nothing happens.
>
> What am I doing wrong?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Serge.
>
>
>
>
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Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2020 08:03:36 -0700
From: rmbusy <rmbusy+mot...@gmail.com>
To: motion-user@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Motion-user] systemctl doesn't start motion
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Make sure all of the permissions for directories and files accessed by
motion, are setup with user motion as owner.? Don't forget
/var/run/motion too.
--
Rob.
On 7/20/20 7:42 AM, Kinney Baughman wrote:
> I haven't been able to start motion as a service for a couple three
> months.
>
> I have to remember to start it manually each time I reboot.
>
> Maybe things have changed but from your email, it doesn't appear to have.
>
> On Mon, Jul 20, 2020 at 5:17 AM Prok <prokh...@gmail.com
> <mailto:prokh...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Hi all.
>
> I installed motion (ver. 4.2.2) on Xubuntu 20.04 LTS from Synaptic
> manager successfully.
> Made all necessary settings and when I start motion from terminal it
> works OK, writes video-files from two cameras on my HDD.
>
> But it doesn't start motion after reboot my PC.
>
> I set: "start_motion_daemon=yes" in /etc/default/motion file
> and "daemon on" in /home/vdo/.motion/motion.conf
> then I enabled it in terminal: sudo systemctl enable motion
> reboot PC.
>
> But no video-files wrote on my HDD, and /home/vdo/.motion/motion.log
> doesn't have new entries after rebooting.
>
> vdo@scorpio:~$ systemctl status motion
> get me this result:
>
> ? motion.service - LSB: Start Motion detection
> ? ? ? Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/motion; generated)
> ? ? ? Active: active (exited) since Mon 2020-07-20 11:37:33 MSK;
> 32min ago
> ? ? ? ? Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)
> ? ? ?Process: 715 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/motion start (code=exited,
> status=0/SUCCESS)
>
> jul 20 11:37:33 scorpio systemd[1]: Starting LSB: Start Motion
> detection...
> jul 20 11:37:33 scorpio motion[715]:? * Starting motion detection
> daemon
> motion
> jul 20 11:37:33 scorpio motion[715]:? ? ...done.
> jul 20 11:37:33 scorpio systemd[1]: Started LSB: Start Motion
> detection.
>
> If I got it right, systemctl tried start motion, but nothing happens.
>
> What am I doing wrong?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Serge.
>
>
>
>
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