What is smartd?

Alan Cox alan at redhat.com
Thu Aug 12 11:32:52 UTC 2004


On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 06:33:05AM +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-08-12 at 06:07, Mike Chambers wrote:
> > On Wed, 2004-08-11 at 23:35 -0400, zbert wrote:
> > > During my boot sequence, this daemon always fails. Can anybody clue me 
> > > in as to what it is and how I might fix it?
> > 
> > Not really sure what smartd is,
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/smartd starts /usr/sbin/smartd,
> 
> cf. man 8 smartd and man 8 chkconfig

Smartd as shipped includes a default config file which is wrong if you 
don't have /dev/hda. I suspect kudzu should be updating it ?





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