This FAQ is no longer kept up to date Look at this URL for a more up to date wiki based FAQ http://www.lavrsen.dk/foswiki/bin/view/Motion/FrequentlyAskedQuestions Q: motion crashes while parsing the config file. A: Appearantly the behaviour of strtok in glibc has changed somewhat. This problem should be fixed as of 2.3 Q: Were does motion look for the config file? A: First it will look for 'motion.conf' in the current directory, next it will try to find '.motion/motion.conf' in your home directory (pointed to by the HOME environment variable). If these don't exist it will try to open '/usr/local/etc/motion.conf' if you specified /usr/local as the prefix to configure (this is the default). Q: What codingstyle is used for motion? A: Motion follows the same style as the linux kernel. Read Documentation/Codingstyle in the kernel tree for some good reasons. Also be aware that motion is multithreaded and as such all functions should be reentrant, using static variables is usually a bad idea.