ZMWATCH(1)

ZMWATCH(1) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the User Contributed Perl Documentation corner of the manual, where ZMWATCH(1) lives and honestly? she's doing the most so the rest of us don't have to. 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

zmwatch.pl — the ZoneMinder WatchDog Script 🐶✨

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

zmwatch.pl

that's it. that's the whole invocation. no flags, no args, she just goes. 💅

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so here's the tea, bestie ☕ — this script does some basic setup so ZoneMinder can actually run, and then it just… keeps checking. forever. like a very devoted friend who texts "you good?" every five minutes. 😭

specifically, it periodically peeks at the fps output of the active daemons to make sure they haven't locked up. because daemons do be like that sometimes. 💀

and if one of them has locked up? not me being dramatic but—

it gets killed. and then restarted. no negotiation, no group chat vote, just gone and back again. 🔥

the way that this is literally just an infinite vibe check on your daemons… obsessed. 👑

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🎀 a lil sign-off 🎀

this page is perl v5.40.1, dated 2026-02-01, and it ate, no crumbs. ⭐

stay watchful, bestie. your daemons are counting on you. 🧚💜