Rick Stevens wrote:
Kaustubh Ghosh wrote:
I have a peculiar situation:
When my FC1 boots up,it gives a message:
Starting smartd: [FAILED]
When it shuts down ,it gives message: Stopping smartd: [FAILED]
Everything ,the desktop etc. works fine -there is no problem.But what is 'smartd' and why does it fail?
It's a daemon that monitors disks that conform to the SMART specification. Of course, you'd know that if you had done "man smartd". It's failing because a) it's not configured or b) you don't have SMART- compliant disks. Check /var/log/messages for any error messages it may spew out while starting.
Does smartd depend on the bios having smart enabled on the drive? You may also want to check that.
