startind smartD [failed]

[Michal Jaegermann]

On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 07:02:11PM +0100, LarryT wrote:
> Thx;
> it doesn't make any change :(
....
> [root at ws044 ~]# smartd-conf.py

That writes on stdout; so if you used commands like you show
then no change is not so surprising.  A suggestion was
'smartd-conf.py >/etc/smartd.conf' which is something different
than the above.

There is also possibilty that you have to turn on SMART capabilities
on a device or devices - if such capabilities are indeed present.
See 'man smartctl' and there option '-s' in particular.  If you
have disks which do not support SMART then do not include these in
/etc/smartd.conf or you will always get failures.

   Michal