smartd??

[John Gray]

Hello

Does anyone know what "smartd" is?  It is a service or something that is
loaded on startup, but it fails to start at boot.

John

[Jason Dixon]

On Wed, 2004-01-28 at 09:54, John Gray wrote:
>  Hello
>  
>  Does anyone know what "smartd" is?  It is a service or something that
>  is loaded on startup, but it fails to start at boot. 
man smartd


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[Tom Mitchell]

On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 09:58:55AM -0500, Jason Dixon wrote:
>  > Does anyone know what "smartd" is?  It is a service or
> something that
>  > is loaded on startup, but it fails to start at boot.
>  
>  man smartd 
 ;-)

FWIW:  man -k or apropos are your friend.
Some of the services listed by "chkconfig --list" and  "service
--status-all"
do not have man pages, or descriptions that can be found with man -k. IMO this 
is a bug, check your favorite service.

 $ apropos smart
 ....
 smartctl             (8)  - Control and Monitor Utility for SMART Disks
 smartd               (8)  - SMART Disk Monitoring Daemon
 smartd.conf [smartd] (5)  - SMART Disk Monitoring Daemon Configuration File -
smartmontools-5.21

 DESCRIPTION
       smartd  is  a  daemon  that  monitors the Self-Monitoring, Analysis and
       Reporting Technology (SMART) system built into  many  ATA-3  and  later
       ATA, IDE and SCSI-3 hard drives......


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[Charles Curley]

On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 01:54:49AM +1100, John Gray wrote:
>  
>     Hello
>     Does  anyone know what "smartd" is?   
Try "info smartd" or "man smartd".


>     It is a service or something that is loaded on startup, but it
>     fails to start at boot. 
As for why it fails on startup on your hardware: I see that on some of
my older equipment, where it does not find suitable hardware.


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[dalen]

Charles Curley wrote:

> As for why it fails on startup on your hardware: I see that on some
> of
> my older equipment, where it does not find suitable hardware.
>
>   
>  
I see it fail on my servers where the only hd* device is a cdrom 
(haven't got around to turning the service off yet).

[Kent Borg]

On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 01:54:49AM +1100, John Gray wrote:
>  Does anyone know what "smartd" is?  It is a service or
> something that is
>  loaded on startup, but it fails to start at boot. 
In addition to the suggestions that you do a "man smartd" you might
also want to do a "man smartctl"--it produces less obscure reports of
what the S.M.A.R.T. data means.


-kb