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1 | Smartmontools installation instructions |
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5 | |
6 | Please also see the smartmontools home page: | |
7 | http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ | |
8 | ||
9 | Table of contents: | |
10 | ||
11 | [1] System requirements | |
12 | [2] Installing from CVS | |
13 | [3] Installing from source tarball | |
14 | [4] Guidelines for different Linux distributions | |
15 | [5] Guidelines for FreeBSD | |
16 | [6] Guidelines for Darwin | |
17 | [7] Guidelines for NetBSD | |
18 | [8] Guidelines for Solaris | |
19 | [9] Guidelines for Cygwin | |
20 | [10] Guidelines for Windows | |
21 | [11] Guidelines for OS/2, eComStation | |
22 | [12] Guidelines for OpenBSD | |
23 | [13] Comments | |
24 | [14] Detailed description of ./configure options | |
25 | ||
26 | [1] System requirements | |
27 | ======================= | |
28 | ||
29 | A) Linux | |
30 | ||
31 | Any Linux distribution will support smartmontools if it has a | |
32 | kernel version greater than or equal to 2.2.14. So any recent | |
33 | Linux distribution should support smartmontools. | |
34 | ||
35 | There are two parts of smartmontools that may require a patched or | |
36 | nonstandard kernel: | |
37 | ||
38 | (1) To get the ATA RETURN SMART STATUS command, the kernel needs | |
39 | to support the HDIO_DRIVE_TASK ioctl(). | |
40 | ||
41 | (2) To run Selective Self-tests, the kernel needs to support the | |
42 | HDIO_DRIVE_TASKFILE ioctl(). | |
43 | ||
44 | If your kernel does not support one or both of these ioctls, then | |
45 | smartmontools will "mostly" work. The things that don't work will | |
46 | give you harmless warning messages. | |
47 | ||
48 | Although "not officially supported" by the developers, smartmontools | |
49 | has also been successfully build and run on a legacy Linux system | |
50 | with kernel 2.0.33 and libc.so.5. On such systems, the restrictions | |
51 | above apply. | |
52 | ||
53 | For item (1) above, any 2.4 or 2.6 series kernel will provide | |
54 | HDIO_DRIVE_TASK support. Some 2.2.20 and later kernels also | |
55 | provide this support IF they're properly patched and | |
56 | configured. [Andre Hedrick's IDE patches may be found at | |
57 | http://www.funet.fi/pub/linux/kernel/people/hedrick/ide-2.2.20/ or | |
58 | are available from your local kernel.org mirror. They are not | |
59 | updated for 2.2.21 or later, and may contain a few bugs.]. | |
60 | If the configuration option CONFIG_IDE_TASK_IOCTL | |
61 | exists in your 2.2.X kernel source code tree, then your 2.2.X | |
62 | kernel will probably support this ioctl. [Note that this kernel | |
63 | configuration option does NOT need to be enabled. Its presence | |
64 | merely indicates that the required HDIO_DRIVE_TASK ioctl() is | |
65 | supported.] | |
66 | ||
67 | For item (2) above, your kernel must be configured with the kernel | |
68 | configuration option CONFIG_IDE_TASKFILE_IO enabled. This | |
69 | configuration option is present in all 2.4 and 2.6 series | |
70 | kernels. Some 2.2.20 and later kernels also provide this support | |
71 | IF they're properly patched and configured as described above. | |
72 | ||
73 | Please see FAQ section of the URL above for additional details. | |
74 | ||
75 | If you are using 3ware controllers, for full functionality you | |
76 | must either use version 1.02.00.037 or greater of the 3w-xxxx | |
77 | driver, or patch earlier 3ware 3w-xxxx drivers. See | |
78 | http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/3w-xxxx.txt | |
79 | for the patch. The version 1.02.00.037 3w-xxxx.c driver was | |
80 | incorporated into kernel 2.4.23-bk2 on 3 December 2003 and into | |
81 | kernel 2.6.0-test5-bk11 on 23 September 2003. | |
82 | ||
83 | B) FreeBSD | |
84 | ||
85 | For FreeBSD support, a 5-current kernel that includes ATAng is | |
86 | required in order to support ATA drives. Even current versions of | |
87 | ATAng will not support 100% operation, as the SMART status can not | |
88 | be reliably retrieved. There is patch pending approval of the | |
89 | ATAng driver maintainer that will address this issue. | |
90 | ||
91 | C) Solaris | |
92 | ||
93 | The SCSI code has been tested on a variety of Solaris 8 and 9 | |
94 | systems. ATA/IDE code only works on SPARC platform. All tested | |
95 | kernels worked correctly. | |
96 | ||
97 | D) NetBSD/OpenBSD | |
98 | ||
99 | The code was tested on a 1.6ZG (i.e., 1.6-current) system. It should | |
100 | also function under 1.6.1 and later releases (unverified). Currently | |
101 | it doesn't support ATA devices on 3ware RAID controllers. | |
102 | ||
103 | E) Cygwin | |
104 | ||
105 | The code was tested on Cygwin 1.5.7, 1.5.11 and 1.5.18. It should also | |
106 | work on other recent releases. | |
107 | ||
108 | Release 1.5.15 or later is recommended for Cygwin smartd. Older versions | |
109 | do not provide syslogd support. | |
110 | ||
111 | Both Cygwin and Windows versions of smartmontools share the same code | |
112 | to access the IDE/ATA or SCSI devices. The information in the "Windows" | |
113 | section below also applies to the Cygwin version. | |
114 | ||
115 | F) Windows | |
116 | ||
117 | The code was tested on Windows 98SE, NT4(SP5,SP6), 2000(SP4) and | |
118 | XP(no SP,SP1a,SP2). It should also work on Windows 95(OSR2), 98, | |
119 | ME and 2003. | |
120 | ||
121 | On 9x/ME, only standard (legacy) IDE/ATA devices 0-3 are supported. | |
122 | The driver SMARTVSD.VXD must be present in WINDOWS\SYSTEM\IOSUBSYS | |
123 | to get loaded at Windows startup. The default location in a new | |
124 | installation of some versions of Windows is the WINDOWS\SYSTEM folder. | |
125 | In this case, move SMARTVSD.VXD to WINDOWS\SYSTEM\IOSUBSYS and reboot | |
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126 | (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/265854/en-us). |
127 | SMARTVSD.VXD may also be missing in a new installation | |
128 | (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/199886/en-us). | |
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129 | |
130 | SMARTVSD.VXD relies on the standard IDE port driver ESDI_506.PDR. | |
131 | If the system uses a vendor specific driver, access of SMART data | |
132 | is not possible on 9x/ME. This is the case if e.g. the optional | |
133 | "IDE miniport driver" is installed on a system with VIA chipset. | |
134 | ||
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135 | Some ATA controllers (e.g. Promise) provided a custom SMARTVSD.VXD |
136 | for their Win9x/ME driver. To access SMART data from both the legacy | |
137 | (/dev/h[a-d]) and this additional (/dev/hd[e-h]) controller, rename | |
138 | this file to SMARTVSE.VXD. Open the file with a hex editor and replace | |
139 | all occurrences of the string "SMARTVSD" with "SMARTVSE". Then reinstall | |
140 | the original Windows SMARTVSD.VXD. | |
141 | ||
142 | On NT4/2000/XP/2003, ATA or SATA devices are supported if the device | |
143 | driver implements the SMART IOCTL. | |
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144 | |
145 | The IDE/ATA read log command (smartctl -l, --log, -a, --all) is | |
146 | not supported by the SMART IOCTL of NT4/2000/XP. Undocumented | |
147 | and possibly buggy system calls are used for this purpose, | |
148 | see WARNINGS file for details. | |
149 | ||
150 | SCSI devices are supported on all versions of Windows. An installed | |
151 | ASPI interface (WNASPI32.DLL) is required to access SCSI devices. | |
152 | The code was tested with Adaptec Windows ASPI drivers 4.71.2. | |
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153 | (http://www.adaptec.com/en-US/support/scsi_soft/ASPI/ASPI-4.70/) |
154 | Links to other ASPI drivers can be found at http://www.nu2.nu/aspi/. | |
155 | ||
156 | 3ware 9000 RAID controllers are supported using new features added | |
157 | to the 3ware 9000 Windows driver. These features are not implemented | |
158 | in the latest 'Released' driver (9.3.0.6) available at the time of | |
159 | this writing. But an 'in Engineering Phase' driver v3.00.02.061 or | |
160 | later can be used to access SMART functionality of each individual | |
161 | drive. Older drivers provide SMART access only to the first drive | |
162 | (port) of each unit. The commands READ LOG and ABORT SELFTEST are | |
163 | still unsupported due to the limitations of SMART IOCTL (see above). | |
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164 | |
165 | G) MacOS/Darwin | |
166 | ||
167 | The code was tested on MacOS 10.3.4. It should work from 10.3 | |
168 | forwards. It doesn't support 10.2. | |
169 | ||
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170 | It's important to know that on 10.3.x, some things don't work |
171 | (see WARNINGS): due to bugs in the libraries used, you cannot run | |
172 | a short test or switch SMART support off on a drive; if you try, | |
173 | you will just run an extended test or switch SMART support on. So | |
174 | don't panic when your "short" test seems to be taking hours. | |
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175 | |
176 | It's also not possible at present to control when the offline | |
177 | routine runs. If your drive doesn't have it running automatically by | |
178 | default, you can't run it at all. | |
179 | ||
180 | SCSI devices are not currently supported. Detecting the power | |
181 | status of a drive is also not currently supported. | |
182 | ||
183 | To summarize this, from another point of view, the things that | |
184 | are not supported fall into two categories: | |
185 | ||
186 | * Can't be implemented easily without more kernel-level support, | |
187 | so far as I know: | |
188 | - running immediate offline, conveyance, or selective tests | |
189 | - running any test in captive mode | |
190 | - aborting tests | |
191 | - switching automatic offline testing on or off | |
192 | - support for SCSI | |
193 | - checking the power mode [-n Directive of smartd] (this is not | |
194 | completely impossible, but not by using a documented API) | |
195 | ||
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197 | - switching off SMART (switching *on* works fine) |
198 | - switching off auto-save (but why would you want to?) | |
199 | - running the short test (that leaves you with only the extended test) | |
200 | ||
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201 | However, some things do work well. For ATA devices, all the |
202 | informational output is available, unless you want something that only | |
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203 | an offline test updates. On many newer Mac OS systems, the |
204 | hard drive comes with the offline test switched on by default, so | |
205 | even that works. | |
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206 | |
207 | H) OS/2, eComStation | |
208 | ||
209 | The code was tested on eComStation 1.1, but it should work on all versions | |
210 | of OS/2. | |
211 | Innotek LibC 0.5 runtime is required. | |
212 | Currently only ATA disks are supported, SCSI support will be added. | |
213 | ||
214 | ||
215 | [2] Installing from CVS | |
216 | ======================= | |
217 | Get the sources from the CVS repository: | |
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218 | cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@smartmontools.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/smartmontools login |
219 | cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@smartmontools.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/smartmontools co sm5 | |
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220 | (when prompted for a password, just press Enter) |
221 | ||
222 | Then type: | |
223 | ./autogen.sh | |
224 | and continue with step [3] below, skipping the "unpack the tarball" step. | |
225 | ||
226 | Further details of using CVS can be found at the URL above. | |
227 | ||
228 | The autogen.sh command is ONLY required when installing from | |
229 | CVS. You need GNU Autoconf (version 2.50 or greater), GNU Automake | |
230 | (version 1.6 or greater) and their dependencies installed in order | |
231 | to run it. You can get these here: | |
232 | http://www.gnu.org/directory/GNU/autoconf.html | |
233 | http://www.gnu.org/directory/GNU/automake.html | |
234 | ||
235 | [3] Installing from the source tarball | |
236 | ====================================== | |
237 | ||
238 | If you are NOT installing from CVS, then unpack the tarball: | |
239 | tar zxvf smartmontools-5.VERSION.tar.gz | |
240 | ||
241 | Then: | |
242 | ./configure | |
243 | make | |
244 | make install (you may need to be root to do this) | |
245 | ||
246 | As shown (with no options to ./configure) this defaults to the | |
247 | following set of installation directories: | |
248 | --prefix=/usr/local | |
249 | --sbindir=/usr/local/sbin | |
250 | --sysconfdir=/usr/local/etc | |
251 | --mandir=/usr/local/share/man | |
252 | --with-docdir=/usr/local/share/doc/smartmontools-VERSION | |
253 | --with-initscriptdir=/usr/local/etc/rc.d/init.d | |
254 | --disable-sample | |
255 | ||
256 | These will usually not overwrite existing "distribution" installations on | |
257 | Linux Systems since the FHS reserves this area for use by the system | |
258 | administrator. | |
259 | ||
260 | For different installation locations or distributions, simply add | |
261 | arguments to ./configure as shown in [4] below. | |
262 | ||
263 | If you wish to alter the default C compiler flags, set an | |
264 | environment variable CFLAGS='your options' before doing | |
265 | ./configure, or else do: | |
266 | make CFLAGS='your options' | |
267 | ||
268 | [4] Guidelines for different Linux distributions | |
269 | ================================================ | |
270 | ||
271 | Note: Please send corrections/additions to: | |
272 | smartmontools-support@lists.sourceforge.net | |
273 | ||
274 | Debian: | |
275 | If you don't want to overwrite any distribution package, use: | |
276 | ./configure | |
277 | ||
278 | Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS, http://www.pathname.com/fhs/): | |
279 | ./configure --sbindir=/usr/local/sbin \ | |
280 | --sysconfdir=/usr/local/etc \ | |
281 | --mandir=/usr/local/man \ | |
282 | --with-initscriptdir=/usr/local/etc/rc.d/init.d \ | |
283 | --with-docdir=/usr/local/share/doc/smartmontools-VERSION | |
284 | ||
285 | Red Hat: | |
286 | ./configure --sbindir=/usr/sbin \ | |
287 | --sysconfdir=/etc \ | |
288 | --mandir=/usr/share/man \ | |
289 | --with-initscriptdir=/etc/rc.d/init.d \ | |
290 | --with-docdir=/usr/share/doc/smartmontools-VERSION | |
291 | ||
292 | Slackware: | |
293 | If you don't want to overwrite any "distribution" package, use: | |
294 | ./configure | |
295 | ||
296 | Otherwise use: | |
297 | ./configure --sbindir=/usr/sbin \ | |
298 | --sysconfdir=/etc \ | |
299 | --mandir=/usr/share/man \ | |
300 | --with-initscriptdir=/etc/rc.d \ | |
301 | --with-docdir=/usr/share/doc/smartmontools-VERSION | |
302 | ||
303 | And | |
304 | removepkg smartmontools smartsuite (only root can do this) | |
305 | before make install | |
306 | ||
307 | The init script works on Slackware. You just have to add an entry like | |
308 | the following in /etc/rc.d/rc.M or /etc/rc.d/rc.local: | |
309 | ||
310 | if [ -x /etc/rc.d/smartd ]; then | |
311 | . /etc/rc.d/smartd start | |
312 | fi | |
313 | ||
314 | To disable it: | |
315 | chmod 644 /etc/rc.d/smartd | |
316 | ||
317 | For a list of options: | |
318 | /etc/rc.d/smartd | |
319 | ||
320 | SuSE: | |
321 | ./configure --sbindir=/usr/sbin \ | |
322 | --sysconfdir=/etc \ | |
323 | --mandir=/usr/share/man \ | |
324 | --with-initscriptdir=/etc/init.d \ | |
325 | --with-docdir=/usr/share/doc/packages/smartmontools-VERSION | |
326 | ||
327 | [5] Guidelines for FreeBSD | |
328 | ========================== | |
329 | To match the way it will installed when it becomes available as a PORT, use | |
330 | the following: | |
331 | ||
332 | ./configure --prefix=/usr/local \ | |
333 | --with-initscriptdir=/usr/local/etc/rc.d/ \ | |
334 | --with-docdir=/usr/local/share/doc/smartmontools-VERSION \ | |
335 | --enable-sample | |
336 | ||
337 | Also, it is important that you use GNU make (gmake from /usr/ports/devel/gmake) | |
338 | to build smartmontools, as the default FreeBSD make doesn't know how to build | |
339 | the man pages. | |
340 | ||
341 | NOTE: --enable-sample will cause the smartd.conf and smartd RC files to | |
342 | be installed with the string '.sample' append to the name, so you will end | |
343 | up with the following: | |
344 | /usr/local/etc/smartd.conf.sample | |
345 | /usr/local/etc/rc.d/smartd.sample | |
346 | ||
347 | ||
348 | [6] Guidelines for Darwin | |
349 | ========================= | |
350 | ./configure --with-initscriptdir=/Library/StartupItems | |
351 | ||
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352 | If you'd like to build the i386 version on a powerpc machine, you can |
353 | use | |
354 | ||
355 | CC='gcc -isysroot /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk -arch i386' \ | |
356 | ./configure --host=i386-apple-darwin \ | |
357 | --with-initscriptdir=/Library/StartupItems | |
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358 | |
359 | [7] Guidelines for NetBSD/OpenBSD | |
360 | ================================= | |
361 | ./configure --prefix=/usr/pkg \ | |
362 | --with-docdir=/usr/pkg/share/doc/smartmontools | |
363 | ||
364 | On OpenBSD, it is important that you use GNU make (gmake from | |
365 | /usr/ports/devel/gmake) to build smartmontools, as the BSD make doesn't | |
366 | know how to make the manpages. | |
367 | ||
368 | [8] Guidelines for Solaris | |
369 | ========================== | |
370 | ||
371 | smartmontools has been partially but not completely ported to | |
372 | Solaris. It includes complete SCSI support but no ATA or 3ware | |
373 | support. It can be compiled with either cc or gcc. To compile | |
374 | with gcc: | |
375 | ||
376 | ./configure [args] | |
377 | make | |
378 | ||
379 | To compile with Sun cc: | |
380 | ||
381 | setenv CC cc [csh syntax], or | |
382 | CC=cc [sh syntax] | |
383 | ./configure [args] | |
384 | make | |
385 | ||
386 | The correct arguments [args] to configure are: | |
387 | --sbindir=/usr/sbin \ | |
388 | --sysconfdir=/etc \ | |
389 | --mandir=/usr/share/man \ | |
390 | --with-docdir=/usr/share/doc/smartmontools-VERSION \ | |
391 | --with-initscriptdir=/etc/init.d | |
392 | ||
393 | To start the script automatically on bootup, create hardlinks that | |
394 | indicate when to start/stop in: | |
395 | /etc/rc[S0123].d/ | |
396 | pointing to /etc/init.d/smartd. Create: | |
397 | K<knum>smartd in rcS.d, rc0.d, rc1.d, rc2.d | |
398 | S<snum>smartd in rc3.d | |
399 | where <knum> is related to <snum> such that the higher snum is the | |
400 | lower knum must be. | |
401 | ||
402 | On usual configuration, '95' would be suitable for <snum> and '05' | |
403 | for <knum> respectively. If you choose these value, you can | |
404 | create hardlinks by: | |
405 | ||
406 | cd /etc | |
407 | sh -c 'for n in S 0 1 2; do ln init.d/smartd rc$n.d/K05smartd; done' | |
408 | sh -c 'for n in 3 ; do ln init.d/smartd rc$n.d/S95smartd; done' | |
409 | ||
410 | [9] Guidelines for Cygwin | |
411 | ========================= | |
412 | ||
413 | Same as Red Hat: | |
414 | ./configure --prefix=/usr \ | |
415 | --sysconfdir=/etc \ | |
416 | --mandir='${prefix}/share/man' | |
417 | ||
418 | OR EQUIVALENTLY | |
419 | ./configure --sbindir=/usr/sbin \ | |
420 | --sysconfdir=/etc \ | |
421 | --mandir=/usr/share/man \ | |
422 | --with-initscriptdir=/etc/rc.d/init.d \ | |
423 | --with-docdir=/usr/share/doc/smartmontools-VERSION | |
424 | ||
425 | Using DOS text file type as default for the working directories ("textmode" | |
426 | mount option) is not recommended. Building the binaries and man pages using | |
427 | "make" is possible, but "make dist" and related targets work only with UNIX | |
428 | file type ("binmode" mount option) set. The "autogen.sh" script prints a | |
429 | warning if DOS type is selected. | |
430 | ||
431 | [10] Guidelines for Windows | |
432 | ========================== | |
433 | ||
434 | To compile the Windows release with MinGW, use the following on Cygwin: | |
435 | ||
436 | ./configure --build=mingw32 | |
437 | make | |
438 | ||
439 | Instead of using "make install", copy the .exe files into | |
440 | some directory in the PATH. | |
441 | ||
442 | To build the Windows binary distribution, use: | |
443 | ||
444 | make dist-win32 | |
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446 | This builds the distribution in directory |
447 | ||
448 | ./smartmontools-VERSION.win32/ | |
449 | ||
450 | and packs it into | |
451 | ||
452 | ./smartmontools-VERSION.win32.zip | |
453 | ||
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454 | To create a Windows installer, use: |
455 | ||
456 | make installer-win32 | |
457 | ||
458 | This builds the distribution directory and packs it into the | |
459 | self-extracting install program | |
460 | ||
461 | ./smartmontools-VERSION.win32-setup.exe | |
462 | ||
463 | The installer is build using the command "makensis" from the NSIS | |
464 | package. See http://nsis.sourceforge.net/ for documentation and | |
465 | download location. The install script was tested with NSIS 2.17. | |
466 | ||
467 | To both create and run the (interactive) installer, use: | |
468 | ||
469 | make install-win32 | |
470 | ||
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471 | Additional make targets are distdir-win32 to build the directory |
472 | only and cleandist-win32 for cleanup. | |
473 | ||
474 | The binary distribution includes all documentation files converted | |
475 | to DOS text file format and *.html and *.txt preformatted man pages. | |
476 | The tools unix2dos.exe (package cygutils) and zip.exe (package zip | |
477 | or a native Win32 release of Info-ZIP, http://www.info-zip.org) are | |
478 | necessary but may be not installed by Cygwin's default settings. | |
479 | ||
480 | It is also possible to compile smartmontools with MSVC 6.0. | |
481 | The project files (smartmontools_vc6.dsw, smart{ctl,d}_vc6.dsp) are | |
482 | included in CVS (but not in source tarball). The config_vc6.h is no | |
483 | longer maintained in CVS. The command: | |
484 | ||
485 | make config-vc6 | |
486 | ||
487 | builds config_vc6.h from MinGW's config.h. Unlike MinGW, MSVC 6.0 | |
488 | can also be used to build the syslog message file tool syslogevt.exe. | |
489 | See smartd man page for usage information about this tool. | |
490 | ||
491 | ||
492 | [11] Guidelines for OS/2, eComStation | |
493 | ===================================== | |
494 | ||
495 | To compile the OS/2 code, please run | |
496 | ||
497 | ./os_os2/configure.os2 | |
498 | make | |
499 | make install | |
500 | ||
501 | [12] Guidelines for OpenBSD | |
502 | ========================== | |
503 | To match the way it will installed when it becomes available as a PORT, use | |
504 | the following: | |
505 | ||
506 | ./configure --prefix=/usr/local \ | |
507 | --sysconfdir=/etc | |
508 | --with-initscriptdir=/usr/local/share/doc/smartmontools-VERSION \ | |
509 | --with-docdir=/usr/local/share/doc/smartmontools-VERSION \ | |
510 | --enable-sample | |
511 | ||
512 | It is important that you use GNU make (gmake from /usr/ports/devel/gmake) | |
513 | to build smartmontools, as the default OpenBSD make doesn't know how to build | |
514 | the man pages. | |
515 | ||
516 | NOTE1: --with-initscriptdir installs a SystemV startup script. It really | |
517 | should be --without-initscriptdir, but the Makefile code is incorrect and | |
518 | trys to install the initscript (smartd) to /no. So, an interim fix it to | |
519 | set the initscript dir to the doc dir. | |
520 | ||
521 | NOTE2: --enable-sample will cause the smartd.conf and smartd RC files to | |
522 | be installed with the string '.sample' append to the name, so you will end | |
523 | up with the following: | |
524 | /usr/local/etc/smartd.conf.sample | |
525 | /usr/local/etc/rc.d/smartd.sample | |
526 | ||
527 | [13] Comments | |
528 | ============ | |
529 | ||
530 | To compile from another directory, you can replace the step | |
531 | ./configure [options] | |
532 | by the following: | |
533 | mkdir objdir | |
534 | cd objdir | |
535 | ../configure [options] | |
536 | ||
537 | To install to another destination (used mainly by package maintainers, | |
538 | or to examine the package contents without risk of modifying any | |
539 | system files) you can replace the step: | |
540 | make install | |
541 | with: | |
542 | make DESTDIR=/home/myself/smartmontools-package install | |
543 | ||
544 | Use a full path. Paths like ~/smartmontools-package may not work. | |
545 | ||
546 | After installing smartmontools, you can read the man pages, and try | |
547 | out the commands: | |
548 | ||
549 | man smartd.conf | |
550 | man smartctl | |
551 | man smartd | |
552 | ||
553 | /usr/sbin/smartctl -s on -o on -S on /dev/hda (only root can do this) | |
554 | /usr/sbin/smartctl -a /dev/hda (only root can do this) | |
555 | ||
556 | Note that the default location for the manual pages are | |
557 | /usr/share/man/man5 and /usr/share/man/man8. If "man" doesn't find | |
558 | them, you may need to add /usr/share/man to your MANPATH environment | |
559 | variable. | |
560 | ||
561 | Source and binary RPM packages are available at | |
562 | http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=64297 | |
563 | ||
564 | Refer to http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/index.html#howtodownload | |
565 | for any additional download and installation instructions. | |
566 | ||
567 | The following files are installed if ./configure has no options: | |
568 | ||
569 | /usr/local/sbin/smartd [Executable daemon] | |
570 | /usr/local/sbin/smartctl [Executable command-line utility] | |
571 | /usr/local/etc/smartd.conf [Configuration file for smartd daemon] | |
572 | /usr/local/etc/rc.d/init.d/smartd [Init/Startup script for smartd] | |
573 | /usr/local/share/man/man5/smartd.conf.5 [Manual page] | |
574 | /usr/local/share/man/man8/smartctl.8 [Manual page] | |
575 | /usr/local/share/man/man8/smartd.8 [Manual page] | |
576 | /usr/local/share/doc/smartmontools-5.X/AUTHORS [Information about the authors and developers] | |
577 | /usr/local/share/doc/smartmontools-5.X/CHANGELOG [A log of changes. Also see CVS] | |
578 | /usr/local/share/doc/smartmontools-5.X/COPYING [GNU General Public License Version 2] | |
579 | /usr/local/share/doc/smartmontools-5.X/INSTALL [Installation instructions: what you're reading!] | |
580 | /usr/local/share/doc/smartmontools-5.X/NEWS [Significant bugs discovered in old versions] | |
581 | /usr/local/share/doc/smartmontools-5.X/README [Overview] | |
582 | /usr/local/share/doc/smartmontools-5.X/TODO [Things that need to be done/fixed] | |
583 | /usr/local/share/doc/smartmontools-5.X/WARNINGS [Systems where lockups or other serious problems were reported] | |
584 | /usr/local/share/doc/smartmontools-5.X/smartd.conf [Example configuration file for smartd] | |
585 | /usr/local/share/doc/smartmontools-5.X/examplescripts [Executable scripts for -M exec of smartd.conf (4 files)] | |
586 | ||
587 | The commands: | |
588 | ||
589 | make htmlman | |
590 | make txtman | |
591 | ||
592 | may be used to build .html and .txt preformatted man pages. | |
593 | These are used by the dist-win32 make target to build the Windows | |
594 | distribution. | |
595 | The commands also work on other operating system configurations | |
596 | if suitable versions of man2html, groff and grotty are installed. | |
597 | On systems without man2html, the following command should work | |
598 | if groff is available: | |
599 | ||
600 | make MAN2HTML='groff -man -Thtml' htmlman | |
601 | ||
602 | ||
603 | [14] Detailed description of arguments to configure command | |
604 | =========================================================== | |
605 | ||
606 | When you type: | |
607 | ./configure [options] | |
608 | there are six particularly important variables that affect where the | |
609 | smartmontools software is installed. The variables are listed here, | |
610 | with their default values in square brackets, and the quantities that | |
611 | they affect described following that. This is a very wide table: please read | |
612 | it in a wide window. | |
613 | ||
614 | OPTIONS DEFAULT AFFECTS | |
615 | ------- ------- ------- | |
616 | --prefix /usr/local Please see below | |
617 | --sbindir ${prefix}/sbin Directory for smartd/smartctl executables; | |
618 | Contents of smartd/smartctl man pages | |
619 | --mandir ${prefix}/share/man Directory for smartctl/smartd/smartd.conf man pages | |
620 | --sysconfdir ${prefix}/etc Directory for smartd.conf; | |
621 | Contents of smartd executable; | |
622 | Contents of smartd/smartd.conf man pages; | |
623 | Directory for rc.d/init.d/smartd init script | |
624 | --with-initscriptdir ${sysconfdir}/init.d/rc.d Location of init scripts | |
625 | --with-docdir ${prefix}/share/doc/smartmontools-5.X Location of the documentation | |
626 | --enable-sample --disable-sample Adds the string '.sample' to the names of the smartd.conf file and the smartd RC file | |
627 | ||
628 | Here's an example: | |
629 | If you set --prefix=/home/joe and none of the other four | |
630 | variables then the different directories that are used would be: | |
631 | --sbindir /home/joe/sbin | |
632 | --mandir /home/joe/share/man | |
633 | --sysconfdir /home/joe/etc | |
634 | --with-initscriptdir /home/joe/etc/init.d/rc.d | |
635 | --with-docdir /home/joe/doc/smartmontools-5.X | |
636 | ||
637 | This is useful for test installs in a harmless subdirectory somewhere. | |
638 | ||
639 | Here are the four possible cases for the four variables above: | |
640 | ||
641 | Case 1: | |
642 | --prefix not set | |
643 | --variable not set | |
644 | ===> VARIABLE gets default value above | |
645 | ||
646 | Case 2: | |
647 | --prefix set | |
648 | --variable not set | |
649 | ===> VARIABLE gets PREFIX/ prepended to default value above | |
650 | ||
651 | Case 3: | |
652 | --prefix not set | |
653 | --variable set | |
654 | ===> VARIABLE gets value that is set | |
655 | ||
656 | Case 4: | |
657 | --prefix is set | |
658 | --variable is set | |
659 | ===> PREFIX is IGNORED, VARIABLE gets value that is set | |
660 | ||
661 | ||
662 | Here are the differences with and without --enable-sample, assuming | |
663 | no other options specified (see above for details) | |
664 | ||
665 | Case 1: | |
666 | --enable-sample provided | |
667 | ==> Files installed are: | |
668 | /usr/local/etc/smartd.conf.sample | |
669 | /usr/local/etc/rc.d/init.d/smartd.sample | |
670 | ||
671 | Case 2: | |
672 | --disable-sample provided or parameter left out | |
673 | ==> Files installed are: | |
674 | /usr/local/etc/smartd.conf | |
675 | /usr/local/etc/rc.d/init.d/smartd | |
676 | ||
677 | Additional information about using configure can be found here: | |
678 | http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/autoconf-2.57/html_mono/autoconf.html#SEC139 |