ZMAUDIT(1)

💖 ZMAUDIT 💖

okay bestie, so this is zmaudit.pl from the ZoneMinder world — it's a User Contributed Perl Documentation page, aka somebody in the community wrote this lil angel and we are so grateful. She's a zone-minder's best friend: she makes sure your event files and your database are actually telling the same story. 🦋

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✨ NAME ✨

zmaudit.pl — ZoneMinder event file system and database consistency checker 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

zmaudit.pl [-r,-report|-i,-interactive]

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

So here's the vibe: this script goes and checks whether your event filesystem and your database are being consistent with each other. Besties should match. 👯

If an event shows up in one of them but not the other? It gets deleted (optionally — you get a say, we're not monsters).

Same energy for monitor event directories: any of those that don't line up with a monitor in the database get disposed of the same way. bye girl 🫶

but WAIT — here's the part where she's nice: monitors that are in the database but don't have a directory are left completely alone. That's not a bug, that's valid, because a freshly created monitor might just not have any events yet. She's not gonna come for a baby monitor with no events. periodt. 😌

✨ OPTIONS ✨

• -c, --continuous — run continuously, she just keeps going, no rest, main character energy 🔥
• -f, --force — run even if the pid file exists (yes, even then, she's stubborn like that)
• -i, --interactive — ask before applying any changes, so you get a lil vibe check before anything gets deleted 💀
• -m, --monitor_id — only consider the given monitor, one girlie at a time
• -r, --report — just report, don't actually do anything. all talk, no action, iconic 🎀
• -s, --storage_id — specify a storage area to audit instead of auditing all of them
• -v, --version — print the installed version of ZoneMinder, iykyk ⭐

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and that's the whole page bestie, go forth and audit responsibly 💜

this was written by the Perl crew — perl v5.40.1, dated 2026-02-01, and the manual page is literally called ZMAUDIT(1). mwah, bye! 🌸