2005/9/14, Sven Hoexter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 06:45:39PM -0500, Jon Roed wrote: > > i have been fooling around with my webcam trying to get it too work. I > > managed to get the webcam command to work (sort of) now it starts, but i get > > no picture, and an error that says: > > > > ftp: lost connection > > ftp: connect failed, sleeping 5 sec > > ftp: lost connection > > ftp: connect failed, sleeping 10 sec > > ftp: lost connection > > ftp: connect failed, sleeping 20 sec > > > > and it just keeps doing that. I think it's because my ftp port (port 21) is > > closed. How do i open it ? or at least allow this traffic > After reading the description for the package webcam I guess that > webcam tries to upload to a default ftp server which might be localhost. > So you can configure webcam to use a real server for the upload or use > vgrabbj to capture a picture and then use a few scripts and lftp to upload > via ftps to a remote ftp server. > > HTH > Sven > -- > If God passed a mic to me to speak > I'd say stay in bed, world > Sleep in peace > [The Cardigans - 03:45: No sleep] > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
You can specify wich file configuration is used by webcam; de default is /home/user/.webcamrc is you run as user, and /etc/.webcamrc if you run as root. You also can define it with &webcam /dir/.webcamrc to use your own In that file you can specify the parameters of where do you want to upload the picture; for example, if you want to do it at your local host, you can hace a file configuration like this: terpsicore:~# more /etc/.webcamrc [grab] device = /dev/video0 text = "webcam %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S" #infofile = filename fg_red = 0 fg_green = 0 fg_blue = 0 width = 352 height = 288 delay = 3 wait = 15 #input = composite1 norm = ntsc rotate = 0 top = 0 left = 0 bottom = -1 right = -1 quality = 300 trigger = 0 once = 0 [ftp] host = localhost user = franco pass = xxxxxxxxx dir = /home/franco/ file = webcam.jpeg #tmp = uploading.jpeg passive = 1 debug = 0 auto = 0 local = 1 ssh = 0 -- Franco Gorziglia Cheviakoff http://www.gorziglia.cl
