[OT] Smartd: Worth the effort?

[Angela Kahealani]

On Sunday 2004-08-29 11:57, Brian Fahrlander wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-08-29 at 15:46, Ben Steeves wrote:
> > smartd is just an interface to the SMART capabilities of the drive.
> > Smartd can't tell you your drive is going to fail if the drive
> > isn't capable of detecting the problem.
>
>     Sure, it won't have a gui, something to ring a cellpone with the
> message or anything, 

My system does... it sends an SMS (short message service) text message 
to my cellphone... because in /etc/aliases everything aliases to root,
which itself is aliased to both my local user account, and to the e-mail 
portal my cellphone service provider offers as a gateway from e-mail to 
SMS to my telephone. So... when smartd or apcupsd generate an alarm 
e-mail I get the first 100some odd characters of that e-mail as a text 
message on my cellphone.

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