smartd.conf changes lost

[Steven Stern]

Tim wrote:
> 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:
>>  
[snip]
>
> 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.
>
>   
Thanks!