At 5:43 PM +0300 7/3/05, Dotan Cohen wrote: ... >Thank you for your advise. I do not seem to have a command smartctl. >Even man smartctl gives me nothing. I went googling and came to the >comclusion that I simply have to install it, but I thought that I'd >ask here first. Without a man page I don't want to go messing things >up. To find out such things: $ yum provides smartctl On my FC3 system it shows that it is in kernel-utils. See where it is (or would be) on your system. Then: $ su - # yum install <pkg> >If I do need to install it, to where should it be installed? /usr/bin? /usr/sbin, but don't do it by hand. ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>