[TriLUG] bash script, motion, scp

James Tuttle jjtuttle at trilug.org
Fri Jan 11 12:24:20 EST 2008


Scott,

You were spot on.  I didn't catch that so I really appreciate your help.
 There have been some burglaries in my neighborhood and someone has been
prowling on my screen porch.  I'd love to have a picture of them.  Now
if I only had a better camera than this Logitech Messenger.

Thanks again,
Jim


Scott Lambdin wrote:
> Hmm - it looks like some version put the filename at the end without %f  -
> see what $2 is in your bash script.
> 
> On 1/11/08, James Tuttle <jjtuttle at trilug.org> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm working on my motion configuration.  Motion allows an
>> on_picture_save option.  Many people use wput to ftp the picture to a
>> remote server, but I couldn't get that to work and I don't care for
>> plain text authentication.
>>
>> I'd like to use scp.  In my motion.conf file I have this line:
>> on_picture_save /home/jjtuttle/.motion/onsave.sh %f
>> %f should expand to the to filename of the saved picture.
>>
>> My onsave.sh file reads thusly:
>> #/bin/bash
>>
>> scp $1 jim at bt:~/www/private/motion/.
>> echo "SCP'd $1 to bt"
>>
>> However, the %f doesn't seem to be expanding.  I get this error:
>> [1] File of type 2 saved to:
>> /home/jim/Documents/personal/motion/01-20080111110000-snapshot.jpg
>> %f: No such file or directory
>> SCP'd %f to Braggtown
>>
>> So, my question is, how can I use SCP to save this picture to a remote
>> location.  I suppose I could trigger a script that finds the most recent
>> image in the directory and SCP's that, but during a motion capture
>> event pictures are saved pretty quickly and I wonder if I'd miss some.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Jim
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