Explicitly discourage using enable_smart with SATA disks in README.Debian

Document what smartd-runner really does (Closes: #352244)

diff --git a/debian/README.Debian b/debian/README.Debian
index 8419cc47ca54f11bda58d72953194add98d18641..d46fd3646278f2707ad24fee8624a08451fb1345 100644 (file)
--- a/debian/README.Debian
+++ b/debian/README.Debian
@@ -6,10 +6,15 @@ To start smartd automatically on system startup set:
 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.
 
-Package Maintainers and users can put script to be run when smartd detects an
-error into /etc/smartmontools/run.d. The script will receive the errormessage
-on stdin. See /etc/smartmontools/run.d/10mail as an example.
+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 users can put scripts to be run when smartd detects an
+error into /etc/smartmontools/run.d. The script will receive the filename of
+the file containing the errormessage as first parameter. See
+/etc/smartmontools/run.d/10mail as an example.
 
 Please read the file WARNINGS in this directory.
 
- -- Guido Guenther <agx@debian.org>, Tue, 24 Mar 2003 19:15:00 +0000
+ -- Guido Guenther <agx@sigxcpu.org>, Wen, 03 May 2006 21:47:00 +0000

diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index a2d374e23fc228fe616713817fa68da68deac7b3..12e00e6ea9200e1b5158fe9afac0ddbcb010925e 100644 (file)
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+smartmontools (5.36-6) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Explicitly discourage using enable_smart with SATA disks in README.Debian
+    (Closes: #365027)
+  * Document what smartd-runner really does (Closes: #352244)
+
+ -- Guido Guenther <agx@sigxcpu.org>  Wed,  3 May 2006 21:44:01 +0200
+
 smartmontools (5.36-5) unstable; urgency=low
 
   * apply current version of the cciss patch, updated to be less intrusive

diff --git a/debian/smartmontools.default b/debian/smartmontools.default
index 796c96dbaa5fc07197b41a54a852e726142e60ae..6cbd28998f70c469f5c3c975effd2e84e96f1768 100644 (file)
--- a/debian/smartmontools.default
+++ b/debian/smartmontools.default
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 # Defaults for smartmontools initscript (/etc/init.d/smartmontools)
 # This is a POSIX shell fragment
 
-# list of devices you want to explicitly enable S.M.A.R.T. for
-# not needed if the device is monitored by smartd
+# List of devices you want to explicitly enable S.M.A.R.T. for
+# Not needed (and not recommended) if the device is monitored by smartd
 #enable_smart="/dev/hda /dev/hdb"
 
 # uncomment to start smartd on system startup