On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 8:32 AM, Raymond Norton <admin at lctn.org> wrote: > The error about /var/www not being the home directory is because the > script is launched by the www-data user. > > I have tried changing group membership, etc, but still get this error: > > > Apr 1 08:18:21 linuxmint zmfilter[15681]: INF [Executing > '/usr/local/sbin/alert /usr/share/zoneminder/events/12/6454'] > Apr 1 08:18:21 linuxmint pulseaudio[15687]: core-util.c: Home directory > /var/www not ours. > Apr 1 08:27:28 linuxmint pulseaudio[15862]: lock-autospawn.c: Cannot > access autospawn lock. > Apr 1 08:27:28 linuxmint pulseaudio[15862]: main.c: Failed to acquire > autospawn lock > You can tweak the environment of a cron job by setting env vars before the invocation. i.e., HOME=/desired/homedir '/usr/local/sbin/alert /usr/share/zoneminder/events/12/6454' Give it a whirl and see if it works. -Rob -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20110401/78508c54/attachment.html>