On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 09:58:55AM -0500, Jason Dixon wrote:
> > Does anyone know what "smartd" is? It is a service or something that
> > is loaded on startup, but it fails to start at boot.
>
> man smartd
;-)
FWIW: man -k or apropos are your friend.
Some of the services listed by "chkconfig --list" and "service --status-all"
do not have man pages, or descriptions that can be found with man -k. IMO this
is a bug, check your favorite service.
$ apropos smart
....
smartctl (8) - Control and Monitor Utility for SMART Disks
smartd (8) - SMART Disk Monitoring Daemon
smartd.conf [smartd] (5) - SMART Disk Monitoring Daemon Configuration File - smartmontools-5.21
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......
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