What is smartd?

[Nils Breunese]

Kaustubh Ghosh:

> I have a peculiar situation:
>
> When my FC1 boots up,it gives a message:
> Starting smartd:                        [FAILED]
>
> When it shuts down ,it gives message:
> Stopping smartd:                 [FAILED]
>
> Everything ,the desktop etc. works fine -there is no problem.But what is
> 'smartd'

Googled for 'smartd': http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/man/smartd.8.html

> and why does it fail?

Maybe your HD doesn't support SMART?

breun.
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