smartd troubles: what package supplies?

[David Hoffman]

On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 12:40:56 -0500, Mark Weaver <mdw1982 at mdw1982.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I've been wondering what package supplies the smartd daemon that starts
> at system startup. It appears to be getting errors and can't start. i'd
> like to try reinstalling the package that it comes in, but I've not been
> able to find out what package that is.
> 
> any ideas?
> 

I could simply answer your question, but I think it better to teach
you how to find things like this for yourself in the future. If you
execute the following command, it tells you which package provides the
file you are looking for:

rpm -q --whatprovides /usr/sbin/smartd