Fedora 15 Update: smartmontools-5.40-6.fc15

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Thu Mar 3 03:21:39 UTC 2011


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2011-1699
2011-02-17 22:21:54
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Name        : smartmontools
Product     : Fedora 15
Version     : 5.40
Release     : 6.fc15
URL         : http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
Summary     : Tools for monitoring SMART capable hard disks
Description :
The smartmontools package contains two utility programs (smartctl
and smartd) to control and monitor storage systems using the Self-
Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology System (SMART) built
into most modern ATA and SCSI hard disks. In many cases, these
utilities will provide advanced warning of disk degradation and
failure.

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Update Information:

when disk is failing use notification system to inform user
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #675778 - Usability proposal: Automatic notification to desktop user
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=675778
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update smartmontools' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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