On Sunday 29 August 2004 03:37 pm, Brian Fahrlander wrote: > On Sun, 2004-08-29 at 11:36, John Thompson wrote: > > Brian Fahrlander wrote: > > > > > why does Fedora bother to carry anything to do with > > > smartmontools if it isn't capable of any positive effect? Is it, > > > perhaps a game? > > > > Did you have your /etc/smartd.conf set up so that it would email you > > when problems were found? Check "man smartd.conf" in particular the > > "-m" directive... > > Hmm. There was an entry for sending mail to > root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, and I get those emails (to that address) but > I didn't see anything. I've made the change and we'll see if that > helps; the drive's still attached, just not mounted...I'll keep an eye > on it, thanks! > I had a problem sending to 'root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx' because I had forgotten to add localhost.localdomain to ALL in /etc/hosts.allow. IOW, tcpwrappers was getting in the way. Something you might want to check. Regards, Allen
