If I change /etc/smartd.conf and remove the auto-generated marker so my changes do not get clobbered, I get an error when the init script is run: /etc/rc.d/init.d/smartd: line 40: [: ==: unary operator expected This change fixes the problem: && [ "$GEN_CONF" == "*SMARTD*AUTOGENERATED*" ] \ to && [ $GEN_CONF == "*SMARTD*AUTOGENERATED*" ] \ I originally sent this to the smartmontools-support mailing list and they said it wasn't their code... Kevin