Motion Stalls Again..

Trying to jumpstart this effort again :

pi@raspberrypi ~ $ sudo motion
[0] Processing thread 0 - config file /etc/motion/motion.conf
[0] Motion 3.2.12 Started
[0] Motion going to daemon mode
[0] Exit motion, cannot create process id file (pid file) /var/run/motion/motion.pid: No such file or directory
pi@raspberrypi ~ $ sudo ps -ef | grep motion
pi        6424  6351  0 22:25 pts/0    00:00:00 grep --color=auto motion
Fortunately, was able to go to /var/run and create a motion directory using sudo mkdir. How stupid!! Ridiculous! If I'm running motion as su, why can't it fix the problem itself?

And, works!! Go with firefox to 192.168.1.11x:8085 and I can see the picture change as I turn the light on and off! A working video webserver! Now, to get the push notification on Android..