smartmontools for Debian ------------------------ To start smartd automatically on system startup set: start_smartd=yes in /etc/default/smartmontools. If you only want to enable S.M.A.R.T. for a device without running the daemon use the enable_smart variable. Don't use enable_smart for any disk monitored by smartd, this is likely to cause problems, especially for SATA (see e.g. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=365027). Package Maintainers and system administrators can put scripts to be run when smartd detects an error into /etc/smartmontools/run.d. These scripts will be run by smartd-runner using run-parts(8). The script will receive the filename of the file containing the errormessage as first parameter. See /etc/smartmontools/run.d/10mail for an example. Upstream recommends running short self tests every day and long self tests once per week. Please read the file WARNINGS in this directory. -- Guido Guenther , Wen, 03 May 2006 21:47:00 +0000