* Carlos E. R.
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On 2014-10-08 10:54, Frederic Crozat wrote:
Le mercredi 08 octobre 2014 à 10:30 +0200, Ludwig Nussel a écrit :
Hi,
After struggling with my harddisk I noticed that we don't have smartd enabled by default. Shouldn't we change that to get hard disk monitoring by default on every installation? But then IIUC smartd only logs to syslog which a desktop user will never see. Are there any ways to notify deskop users in case of imminent trouble?
IF monitoring is enabled, the desktop user does get a notification on emergencies. I've seen it. Provoking a fake fault in order to see if the notification works I don't know how to do.
gnome-disks-utility (through udisks2) have SMART capabilities and have a monitor for SMART failure.
I don't know if KDE has similar integration for this udisks2 capability.
smartd is not on by default because supposedly dbus-daemon does it:
No, that is not how it works. udisks2 has nothing to do with smartd, it has its own helper binary which reads SMART attributes, that is /usr/lib/udisks/udisks-helper-ata-smart-collect, and it doesn't log anything by default AFAIK. Rather it can signal warnings to desktop clients like gnome-disk-utility which in turn can create a notification for the user. -- Guido Berhoerster -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org