[mythtv-users] Help running mythzoneminder

[Kevin Kuphal]

On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 1:52 PM, leifontheroad <leifontheroad at hotmail.com>
wrote:

>  I'm trying to get the mythzoneminder plugin running and I'm a little
> confused as to what to do. I'm running mythtv 21 on a combined FE/BE
> machine, and I have a separate machine that runs zoneminder. My mythtv
> machine seems to be in good shape - the mythzoneminder plugin is there and I
> can configure it via the mythtv frontend.
>
> What I'm having trouble with is figuring out how to get the MythZMServer
> running on the zoneminder box. Some questions:
>
> 1) I don't have mythtv installed on the zoneminder machine. Do I need to
> do so (seems unnecessary)?
> 2) Or can I just "# yum install mythzoneminder" on my zoneminder machine
> (this will install a bunch of dependencies like mythtv-frontend, which seems
> unnecessary, but maybe I have no choice)?
> 3) The wiki seems to indicate that one can just copy over the mythzmserver
> from the mythtv machine to the zoneminder machine. So I copied over the
> mythzmserver (/usr/bin/mythzmserver) from my mythtv machine over to the
> zoneminder machine, but when I try to start the service, I get
> "mythzmserver: unrecognized service". BTW, I get this on my mythtv machine
> as well, which seems odd.
>
> I could of course go the route of compiling everything, but that doesn't
> seem necessary since the issue doesn't appear to be with the repositories.
>

How are you starting mythzmserver on the zoneminder box?  Just copying an
executable doesn't make a service for the service command.  You need to have
a script in the /etc/init.d folder to use it as a service.  Try just running
it from the command-prompt.

Kevin
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