On Sat, Dec 11, 2004 at 11:18:38PM -0500, stan wrote: > I got a webacm the other day, and now that I've got it working I wanted to > put the images up on my webserver. > > I looked at : http://www.aboutdebian.com/webcam.htm, and managed to make it > work with the Debian webcam package, but it just seems to stop working > after an hour or so. The webcam pprocess is still running, but no new > images are being ftp'd to the webserver. I even set up a script in > /etc/rc2.d to satrt this thing on boot. > > Now obviously I could script something, and maybe I should, but I thought > I'd ask if there was a beteer Debian package to ry, firts? Hm I'm using vgrabbj, lftp, cron and a few very short shell scripts to grab the picture and upload it to my ftp server with ftps.
Donno if it helps you ... crontab line: ------------- */5 * * * * /home/sven/camstuff/grabimage.sh The grabimage.sh script: ------------------------ #!/bin/bash #get a current img from cam vgrabbj -i sif -f /home/sven/camstuff/current.jpg -d /dev/video0 -t /home/sven/camstuff/FreeMonoBold.ttf -m 75 -a 3 -n > /dev/null 2>&1 #cp current img into the archiv cp /home/sven/camstuff/current.jpg /home/sven/camstuff/archiv/img-$(date +%Y%m%d%k%M|sed -e 's/ //g').jpg #upload current img lftp -f /home/sven/camstuff/ftpscript > /dev/null 2>&1 The ftpscript for lftp: ----------------------- open -u user,pass my.server.de put /home/sven/camstuff/current.jpg -o current-tmp.jpg mv current-tmp.jpg current.jpg quit HTH Sven -- COMBO GUANO WEIHNACHTSKONZERT Saal Norhausen, Leverkusen-Rheindorf 23.12.2004 - 19:00Uhr http://www.comboguano.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]