I was interested in setting up a home security network. I installed Motion in Ubuntu 12.04 and it worked fine. Then the next day I went to play around with it some more but the images are not being saved to /tmp/motion as the configuration file states, but to the home directory:

[1] File of type 1 saved to: ./01-20121126211634-12.jpg

Any idea if there is another setting that has more priority than the motion config file?