smartd spamming about Prefailure Attribute: 1

[Andrew Farris]

Michal Jaegermann wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 11:52:32PM +0000, Johann B. Gudmundsson wrote:
>> Found what was the problem.... :) ( needs to be fixed downstream to fc8 )
>>
>> The culprit is the smartd-conf.py is missing,
>> Maybe the ubuntu upstart virus got it.. :s
> 
> That for some time lives in a separate package smartmontools-config.
> Here is a relevant changelog entry (you can see find it yourself
> with 'rpm -q --changelog smartmontools | less'):
> 
> * Thu Jun 21 2007 Tomas Smetana <tsmetana at redhat.com> - 1:5.37-4
> - fix #241389 - smartd-conf.py pulls in a big dependency chain, so
>   build a separate config package

And it appears my machine did not have the second config package installed yet. 
  So is the generic config /etc/smartd.conf just a static conf included in the 
primary package?  Or was it supposed to be generated for my machine specifically?

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