On Sunday 2004-08-29 11:57, Brian Fahrlander wrote: > On Sun, 2004-08-29 at 15:46, Ben Steeves wrote: > > smartd is just an interface to the SMART capabilities of the drive. > > Smartd can't tell you your drive is going to fail if the drive > > isn't capable of detecting the problem. > > Sure, it won't have a gui, something to ring a cellpone with the > message or anything, My system does... it sends an SMS (short message service) text message to my cellphone... because in /etc/aliases everything aliases to root, which itself is aliased to both my local user account, and to the e-mail portal my cellphone service provider offers as a gateway from e-mail to SMS to my telephone. So... when smartd or apcupsd generate an alarm e-mail I get the first 100some odd characters of that e-mail as a text message on my cellphone. -- Copyright 2004 Angela Kahealani. All rights reserved without prejudice; UCC1-207. All information and transactions are non negotiable and are private between the parties. http://www.kahealani.com/
