zmupdate.pl(8)

🦋 zmupdate.pl(8) — the zoneminder glow-up page 🦋

okay bestie, so this is section 8 of the zoneminder manual, and it's literally the page for zmupdate.pl 💅

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✨ NAME ✨

zmupdate.pl — check and upgrade ZoneMinder database 🫶

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

zmupdate.pl -c,--check | -f,--freshen | -v<version>,--version=<version>
[-u <dbuser> -p <dbpass>]

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

So what does this script actually do, you ask? It checks what the most recent release of ZoneMinder is at the moment — like, right now, live — by downloading https://update.zoneminder.com/version.txt ⭐ no cap, that's the whole vibe check.

And it can also apply and configure upgrades etc, including on the fly upgrades 👑 it's giving main character energy fr fr.

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💜 OPTIONS 💜

• -c, --check — Check for updated versions of ZoneMinder 🔥. If not interactive, zmupdate.pl will stay running, checking every hour ⏰. If interactive, it will try once, print out result and quit ✨.
• -f, --freshen — Freshen the configuration in the database 🧚. Equivalent of old zmconfig.pl -noi 💫.
• --migrate-events — Update database structures as per USE_DEEP_STORAGE setting 🌈.
• -v <version>, --version=<version> — Force upgrade to the current version from <version> 💪.
• -u <dbuser>, --user=<dbuser> — Alternate DB user with privileges to alter DB 🔑.
• -p <dbpass>, --pass=<dbpass> — Password of alternate DB user with privileges to alter DB 🙈.
• -s, --super — Use system maintenance account on debian based systems instead of unprivileged account 👑.
• -d <dir>, --dir=<dir> — Directory containing update files if not in default build location 📁.
• -interactive — interact with the user 🗣️.
• -nointeractive — do not interact with the user 🤐.

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bestie please note: this is section 8 (zmupdate.pl(8)), and the footer bit is --stderr, dated 2026-03-04 💖 that's the source/version-and-date sign-off, mwah 🎀

slay, go forth and update your database 💅✨🦋