Why does motion daemon not have permission to write to log?
After removing /var/log/motion and reboot, the motion-daemon was up and running and had the permission to write to the log. There are three ways to fix the problem.
When does Raspberry Pi motion error message come out?
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How to create a motion group on Raspberry Pi?
An alternative third method is to allow write access to the log directory for a group ‘motion’ and to make that a supplementary group of any user needing to be able to start the daemon. E.g. Assuming you want to create group motion and add user pi
Why do I need permission to start motion?
That is to make sure that the user starting motion has the access permission to write into the /var/log/motion/ directory. First could just make that user the owner of the directory.
How to fix motion error in Ubuntu 16.04?
If you ran it by issuing sudo motion from the command line, those folders will be created as belonging to the root user. When running it as a service, however, it will run as the motion user, and then it can’t access folders that belong to root. To fix this problem, give them to the motion user: sudo chown motion:motion /var/run/motion etc.
What does motion require to write to specific directory?
– Raspberry Pi Stack Exchange What permissions does Motion require to write to specific directory? I’m trying to run Motion as a deamon, however whenever I try to write a file, it crashes and I find this in my syslog: It was able to write files there when I started it manually.