Re: [OT] Smartd: Worth the effort?

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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



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