Zoneminder background process leaking logs to foreground.

[shaun-ba]

Zoneminder background process leaking logs to foreground.

Replicate: Login to server, wait a few seconds and start seeing logs spammed to foreground.

n@zm-vid:~$ 
Broadcast message from systemd-journald@zm-vid (Mon 2018-03-12 15:41:51 UTC):

zma_m11[539]:  [zma_m11] [Rear-sub: 6255000 - Analysing at 5.99 fps]

Broadcast message from systemd-journald@zm-vid (Mon 2018-03-12 15:41:52 UTC):

zma_m8[503]:  [zma_m8] [Front-sub: 6255000 - Analysing at 6.02 fps]

[pliablepixels]

@connortechnology - the fixes did not solve this problem - its gotten worse (more frequent)

[shaun-ba]

server is unusable :D

[connortechnology]

weird. Anyways, turn off logging to syslog. Or set it to critical instead of info..

[shaun-ba]

Ok, that's a temporary workaround whilst you investigate and fix it?

[pliablepixels]

My current workaround is to add ForwardToWall=no to /etc/systemd/journald.conf and restart the service - this kills the broadcast messages for all apps including ZM, but really is a temporary workaround. There is something ZM-SA is doing that is triggering this that no other app is doing.

[shaun-ba]

@pliablepixels I've not come across this with ANY software in the past, very odd!

[connortechnology]

So what seems to be happening is that when the process is told to rotate logs, it starts doing this. So something is wrong in the log reload functions.

Should have a fix soon.

[connortechnology]

I think I found it.

Please note that the behaviour only happens after a reload, so to test, all you have do is killall -HUP zma

[pliablepixels]

so far so good

Updated: seems resolved for me.

[shaun-ba]

resolved!