Motion - Support Question 2007x 05x 31x 185858

Event Counter

Question

Is there any way to reset the event counter without restarting the daemon.


Environment

Motion version: 3.2.7
ffmpeg version:  
Libraries: ffmpeg, mysql, postgresql
Server OS:  

-- BaraclosVargas - 31 May 2007

Answer

Hi,

You can signal Motion with a SIGHUP, this will re-read the config files and reset the event counter. It peforms effectively a restart, without you having to terminate the process and re-start it.

I do this every night at midnight on my installation.

kill -1 'pid-of-motion'
or
killall -HUP motion

Cheers, Simon.
Topic revision: r3 - 16 Jun 2008, AngelCarpintero
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