smartd problems

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Sun, 25 Apr 2004, Dave Smith wrote:

> I haven't altered any default settings since installing FC1 but on boot
> up and shutdown there is a problem with smartd which is always marked as
> having failed to both start up and shut down.
>
> When I check in service configuration I see the following message:
>
> "smartd dead but subsys locked"
>
> What is this all about? What do I have to do to get smatd "undead"?
>
> I tried stopping and starting the application but it made no difference.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Dave Smith

Check /etc/smartd.conf and make sure it describes your system correctly.

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		Matthew Saltzman

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