smartd??

[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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