smartd troubles: what package supplies?

[David Hoffman]

On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 14:33:04 -0500, Mark Weaver <mdw1982 at mdw1982.com> wrote:
> Stuart Mackintosh wrote:
> >>I've been wondering what package supplies the smartd daemon that starts
> >>at system startup.
> >
> >
> > rpm -q --whatprovides `which smartd`
> > kernel-utils-2.4-9.1.101.fedora
> >
> 
> ok..so even after reinstalling the necessary package I'm getting this
> message from the services dialog when starting smartd:
> 
> smartd dead but subsys locked
> 
> apart from the obvious whats it telling me?
> 

Well the obvious thing to look for is to see if there is a file called
"smartd" in /var/lock/subsys that should have been removed if it shut
down properly.

If that file is not there and then you try to do "service start
smartd" (AS ROOT) is that when you are getting your errors?