debian/README.Debian

   1 smartmontools for Debian
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   4 To start smartd automatically on system startup set:
   5  start_smartd=yes
   6 in /etc/default/smartmontools. If you only want to enable S.M.A.R.T. for a
   7 device without running the daemon use the enable_smart variable.
   8
   9 Don't use enable_smart for any disk monitored by smartd, this is likely to
  10 cause problems, especially for SATA (see e.g.
  11 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=365027).
  12
  13 Package Maintainers and system administrators can put scripts to be run
  14 when smartd detects an error into /etc/smartmontools/run.d. These
  15 scripts will be run by smartd-runner using run-parts(8). The script will
  16 receive the filename of the file containing the errormessage as first
  17 parameter. See /etc/smartmontools/run.d/10mail for an example.
  18
  19 Upstream recommends running short self tests every day and long self tests once
  20 per week.
  21
  22 Please read the file WARNINGS in this directory.
  23
  24  -- Guido Guenther <agx@sigxcpu.org>, Wen, 03 May 2006 21:47:00 +0000