On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 07:59 -0500, Steven Stern wrote: > I've noticed that smartd doesn't monitor my drives. How do I get it to > look at and monitor my two SATA drives? > > I added > > /dev/sda -a > /dev/sdb -a > > to the smartd.conf file. When I restart the smart daemon, the > smartd.conf file is rewritten without those two lines. The log file > indicates that smartd is not monitoring any drives: > > smartd[3343]: Configuration file /etc/smartd.conf parsed but has no > entries (like /dev/hda) > smartd[3343]: Monitoring 0 ATA and 0 SCSI devices > smartd[3345]: smartd has fork()ed into background mode. New PID=3345. I noticed something similar: The configuration file gets changed, there's nothing specifically set in it, my drives were being monitored, but not any more... Below are /var/log/messages snippets of it working and not working (my drive is SATA, but the BIOS only has PATA options): Oct 8 22:14:31 suspishus smartd[3105]: smartd version 5.37 [i686-redhat-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-6 Bruce Allen Oct 8 22:14:31 suspishus smartd[3105]: Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ Oct 8 22:14:31 suspishus smartd[3105]: Opened configuration file /etc/smartd.conf Oct 8 22:14:31 suspishus smartd[3105]: Configuration file /etc/smartd.conf parsed. Oct 8 22:14:31 suspishus smartd[3105]: Device: /dev/sda, opened Oct 8 22:14:31 suspishus smartd[3105]: Device: /dev/sda, not found in smartd database. Oct 8 22:14:31 suspishus smartd[3105]: Device: /dev/sda, is SMART capable. Adding to "monitor" list. Oct 8 22:14:31 suspishus smartd[3105]: Monitoring 1 ATA and 0 SCSI devices Oct 8 22:14:31 suspishus smartd[3107]: smartd has fork()ed into background mode. New PID=3107. Oct 9 02:23:27 suspishus smartd[2550]: smartd version 5.37 [i386-redhat-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-6 Bruce Allen Oct 9 02:23:28 suspishus smartd[2550]: Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ Oct 9 02:23:28 suspishus smartd[2550]: Opened configuration file /etc/smartd.conf Oct 9 02:23:28 suspishus smartd[2550]: Configuration file /etc/smartd.conf parsed but has no entries (like /dev/hda) Oct 9 02:23:28 suspishus smartd[2550]: Monitoring 0 ATA and 0 SCSI devices Oct 9 02:23:28 suspishus smartd[2552]: smartd has fork()ed into background mode. New PID=2552. On Oct 9th, smartmontools was updated (the RPM for the daemon and the tool), and all subsequent logs show zero drives being monitored. Have a look at the very top of the smart configuration file: # *SMARTD*AUTOGENERATED* /etc/smartd.conf # Remove the line above if you have edited the file and you do not want # it to be overwritten on the next smartd startup. Try following the instructions, there and further in the file, to make your SMART daemon manually, instead of automatically, configured. I removed those two lines, and uncommented the DEVICESCAN option (being lazy, and wanting to see what will happen if I plug in a removable drive). The messages in /var/log/messages now suggest it's monitoring my internal drive, I haven't yet plugged in a second one. -- (This computer runs FC7, my others run FC4, FC5 & FC6, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
