Public bug reported: A vanilla install of motion configures motion to run as user "motion" and provides a correctly chowned dir, /var/run/motion, for storing the pidfile, motion.pid.
However, init script and motion.conf contain incorrect values to use this. Editing the following lines fixes it: /etc/init.d/motion 18:PIDFILE=/var/run/motion/$NAME.pid /etc/motion/motion.conf 14:process_id_file /var/run/motion/motion.pid After these changes are made, motion starts and stops correctly when run in daemon mode. ** Affects: motion (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- Default init/conf scripts for motion are broken https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/242459 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs