Fedora

The Fedora Project is a Red Hat sponsored, community-supported open source project. Its stated goal is to promote the rapid progress of free (as in freedom) and open source software and content, and its rapid innovation is possible using open processes and public forums.

The project is led by the Fedora Project Board, which is comprised of community leaders and Red Hat members, and this group steers the direction of the project and of Fedora Core, the Linux distribution it develops. Red Hat employees work with the code alongside community members, and many Fedora Project innovations make their way into new releases of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

ZoneMinder is developed on the Fedora distribution and no special actions are usually required for installation.

Installation Guides

Fedora Core 6 Step-by-Step

Fedora4 Notes

• http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=5991
  

Set web user and group correctly and set the log dir to a writeable location. With FC4 there are three things that must be done to get ZM running,:

1. is in the /etc/ld.so.conf.d/ dir created a file with 775 perm called zm.conf and add the line '/usr/local/lib' to it and type 'ldconfig' once it is added, also with a fresh install of FC4 make sure SE linux is disabled if you are not using it. Check your log path in options under the paths tab. This will tell you were the log are going to be put.
2. Second make sure the path exists.
3. Third create the log files if they do not exist and make sure that they have the correct permissions. If zm can not open and write the log files, it will not start.