On Thu, 25 Mar 2004 09:53:45 -0500, Matt Morgan <matt.morgan-fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >This is getting interesting. I wondered, when there's a problem, how >does smartd let you (user or root) know that there's a problem? It's all >there in the man page. It checks every 30 minutes (configurable) and >uses SYSLOG, so the errors probably end up in /var/log/messages on the >local computer, unless you've set up a syslog server. Apparently at >startup it can get a lot of "missing block-major-xx" errors, which are >"mostly harmless," if it's been configured to look for non-existent >drives especially. > >I was pleased to see that even though I've put zero effort into smartd, >it appears to be working perfectly on my computer (these are the smartd >startup messages in my /var/log/messages) : > The standard logwatch script /etc/log.d/scripts/services/smartd will pick up the messages and put them in the daily summary mailed to root. I have yet to get an "interesting" message, but given that I'm using old disks, I check every morning. -- Steve
