When fedora is booting I get an error regarding "smartd". Can anyone tell me what that is?
It monitors hard drive health in compatible harddrives.
% man smartd
NAME
smartd - SMART Disk Monitoring DaemonSYNOPSIS
smartd [options]FULL PATH
/usr/sbin/smartdPACKAGE VERSION
smartmontools-5.21 "$Date: 2003/10/13 14:31:34 $"DESCRIPTION
smartd is a daemon that monitors the Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology (SMART) system built into many ATA-3 and later ATA, IDE and SCSI-3 hard drives. The purpose of SMART is to monitor the reliability of the hard drive and predict drive failures, and to carry out different types of drive self-tests. This version of smartd is compatible with ATA/ATAPI-5 and earlier standards (see REFERENCES below)
smartd will attempt to enable SMART monitoring on ATA devices (equiva-lent to smartctl -s on ) and polls these and SCSI devices every 30 minutes (configurable), logging SMART errors and changes of SMART Attributes via the SYSLOG interface. The default location for these SYSLOG notifications and warnings is /var/log/messages.
If you send a USR1 signal to smartd it will immediately check the status of the disks, and then return to polling the disks every 30 minutes. See the Â-i option below for additional details.
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