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Zoneminder logging to /var/log/syslog

Zoneminder produces a lot of logging which finds its way in to /var/log/messages and /var/log/syslog.
To move this logging to a single zoneminder logfile, one must edit the rsyslog config file.

This works as a simple hack for Zoneminder 1.24.2 until they have fixed this problem.

Open rsyslog and place codeline 1 and 2 at the very top [...]

Automated filters in Zoneminder not running.

Zoneminder depend on perl modules. If an automated filter routine does not work, it may be because of missing modules.
To figure out what is missing run zmfilter in console.

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:/usr/local/bin$ sudo ./zmfilter.pl

If the problem lies with perl, you will find it complaining for a missing module.
Install a missing module with the command shown below. In my case I [...]