Server shutdown when closing event in continuous recording mode about zoneminder

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[francescocarzaniga]

@connortechnology This problem is due to the systemd service. It cannot detect that the process has forked due to the following error:
New main PID does not belong to service, and PID file is not owned by root. Refusing.
So it restarts every 600 seconds as indicated in Timeout.

[connortechnology]

I run several debian 12 servers here... with no issues like this.
Have you made any modifications to the .service file? Please post here your /etc/systemd/system/zoneminder.service

[francescocarzaniga]

No modifications at all, this is a fresh install using the https://zmrepo.zoneminder.com/debian/master repo.
Contents of /lib/systemd/system/zoneminder.service:

# ZoneMinder systemd unit file
# This file is intended to work with Debian distributions

[Unit]
Description=ZoneMinder CCTV recording and surveillance system
After=network.target mysql.service
# Remarked out so that it will start ZM on machines that don't have mysql installed
# Override it by placing an override.conf in /etc/systemd/system/zoneminder.service.d
#BindsTo=mysql.service

[Service]
#User=www-data
Type=forking
ExecStart=/usr/bin/zmpkg.pl start
ExecReload=/usr/bin/zmpkg.pl restart
ExecStop=/usr/bin/zmpkg.pl stop
PIDFile=/run/zm/zm.pid
Restart=always
RestartSec=10
Environment=TZ=:/etc/localtime
TimeoutSec=600

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Now I have modified it to be a oneshot just to make it work, but it's a temporary fix.