Re: [Motion-user] motion automatic start not working

[Sergio A.S. de A. <ssa...@ss...>]

Thanks for your answer, Rob.

In my case, the folder in wich the images/movies for motion will be saved, is located at:
/var/www/capture
The folder capture has ownership of nobody:nogroup (as the others because it's located in the main folder of the apache server). If I make this folder and sub-folders owned by root:root, it has the same effect.
I changed the permissions of this folder (just to see if it works), to 777 (also the sub-folders).
I also created the user motion.
Now, if I try to start motion with the command: /etc/init.d/motion start
I get:

root@cameras:/usr/local/etc# /etc/init.d/motion start
Starting motion detection : motion
[0] Processing thread 0 - config file /usr/local/etc/motion.conf
[0] Processing config file /usr/local/etc/thread1.conf
[0] Processing config file /usr/local/etc/thread2.conf
[0] Processing config file /usr/local/etc/thread3.conf
[0] Motion 3.2.11.1 Started
[0] Exit motion, cannot create process id file (pid file) /var/run/motion/motion.pid:
[0] Motion going to daemon mode

As seen, the user motion can't create the pid file because it's not root.
Even if it tells it's going to daemon mode, it's actually not running.
If I remove the user motion, it works, but just if I start it manually.
I never used or created the user motion before, as I just used to compile motion, as root, and made "make install" and all was going well.

Sergio

----- Original Message -----
From: Rob MacGregor <rob...@gm...>
To: Motion discussion list <mot...@li...>
Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2009 17:46:37 +0000
Subject: Re: [Motion-user] motion automatic start not working

> On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 14:57, Sergio A.S. de Aguiar
<ssa...@ss...> wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I am experimenting a problem, from some time now, wich is:
>
> When I start the computer (reboot), motion don't start.
> If I start it by using the command:
>
>  /etc/init.d/motion start
>
> I get this error:
>
> Starting motion detection : motion
> start-stop-daemon: user `motion' not found
>  (Success)
> failed
>
> If I create the user motion (never had to do it before), It will not
> save any picture.
> If I start it by using the command line (#motion), as root, it starts
> and works fine.
>
> Any ideas?

That it works as root means it is almost certainly a file permissions
problem.  Check that the user "motion" has ownership of the output
directories and all files inside.

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Rob MacGregor
      Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he
        doesn't become a monster.                  Friedrich Nietzsche

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