What is smartd?

[Henry Hartley]

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Kaustubh Ghosh [mailto:meetkaustubhghosh at vsnl.net] 
>> Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2004 1:20 PM
>> 
>> 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'  and why does it fail?

smartd is the SMART Disk Monitoring Daemon.  As for why
it is failing, I'd look for mentions in your log files:

cd /var/log
grep smartd *

and see what shows up.  You might also check
/etc/smartd.conf for anything that looks out of place (like
checking disks that don't exist or some such).

-- 
Henry Hartley