Re: App Note : "Motion"

On 7/16/26 10:20, jayjwa wrote:
> c186282 <[email protected]> writes:
> 
>> Checking, the system disk was TOTALLY full. The
>> box couldn't boot properly - hung on a black
>> terminal-like screen - and could not update
>> giving a message about /var/cache/apt being
>> too full.
> 
>> Cleared all movies from /var/lib/motion.
> Write a script that watches that area. Run it periodically from a cron
> job (if you do care about that output format, which you seemed to turn
> off now).

   Good plan. A "video-too-old" script is recommended
   if you use motion's inbuilt save-video option.

   However I wrote my own video builder/saver - frame
   rate and size and destination of MY choosing. It does
   have a too-old function.

   This was a simple error - didn't set the motion.conf
   file quite right ... thus getting mysterious failures
   that kinda looked like other causes. The messages
   really looked like ACPI issues and I wasted a lot
   of time trying to track that down.