smartd.conf changes lost
Tim
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Mon Oct 22 14:20:11 UTC 2007
On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 07:59 -0500, Steven Stern wrote:
> I've noticed that smartd doesn't monitor my drives. How do I get it to
> look at and monitor my two SATA drives?
>
> I added
>
> /dev/sda -a
> /dev/sdb -a
>
> to the smartd.conf file. When I restart the smart daemon, the
> smartd.conf file is rewritten without those two lines. The log file
> indicates that smartd is not monitoring any drives:
>
> smartd[3343]: Configuration file /etc/smartd.conf parsed but has no
> entries (like /dev/hda)
> smartd[3343]: Monitoring 0 ATA and 0 SCSI devices
> smartd[3345]: smartd has fork()ed into background mode. New PID=3345.
I noticed something similar: The configuration file gets changed,
there's nothing specifically set in it, my drives were being monitored,
but not any more... Below are /var/log/messages snippets of it working
and not working (my drive is SATA, but the BIOS only has PATA options):
Oct 8 22:14:31 suspishus smartd[3105]: smartd version 5.37 [i686-redhat-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-6 Bruce Allen
Oct 8 22:14:31 suspishus smartd[3105]: Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
Oct 8 22:14:31 suspishus smartd[3105]: Opened configuration file /etc/smartd.conf
Oct 8 22:14:31 suspishus smartd[3105]: Configuration file /etc/smartd.conf parsed.
Oct 8 22:14:31 suspishus smartd[3105]: Device: /dev/sda, opened
Oct 8 22:14:31 suspishus smartd[3105]: Device: /dev/sda, not found in smartd database.
Oct 8 22:14:31 suspishus smartd[3105]: Device: /dev/sda, is SMART capable. Adding to "monitor" list.
Oct 8 22:14:31 suspishus smartd[3105]: Monitoring 1 ATA and 0 SCSI devices
Oct 8 22:14:31 suspishus smartd[3107]: smartd has fork()ed into background mode. New PID=3107.
Oct 9 02:23:27 suspishus smartd[2550]: smartd version 5.37 [i386-redhat-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-6 Bruce Allen
Oct 9 02:23:28 suspishus smartd[2550]: Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
Oct 9 02:23:28 suspishus smartd[2550]: Opened configuration file /etc/smartd.conf
Oct 9 02:23:28 suspishus smartd[2550]: Configuration file /etc/smartd.conf parsed but has no entries (like /dev/hda)
Oct 9 02:23:28 suspishus smartd[2550]: Monitoring 0 ATA and 0 SCSI devices
Oct 9 02:23:28 suspishus smartd[2552]: smartd has fork()ed into background mode. New PID=2552.
On Oct 9th, smartmontools was updated (the RPM for the daemon and the
tool), and all subsequent logs show zero drives being monitored.
Have a look at the very top of the smart configuration file:
# *SMARTD*AUTOGENERATED* /etc/smartd.conf
# Remove the line above if you have edited the file and you do not want
# it to be overwritten on the next smartd startup.
Try following the instructions, there and further in the file, to make
your SMART daemon manually, instead of automatically, configured. I
removed those two lines, and uncommented the DEVICESCAN option (being
lazy, and wanting to see what will happen if I plug in a removable
drive). The messages in /var/log/messages now suggest it's monitoring
my internal drive, I haven't yet plugged in a second one.
--
(This computer runs FC7, my others run FC4, FC5 & FC6, in case that's
important to the thread.)
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