Re: smartd spamming about Prefailure Attribute: 1

["Johann B. Gudmundsson" <johannbg hi is>]

Michal Jaegermann wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 11:52:32PM +0000, Johann B. Gudmundsson wrote:
>   
> > Found what was the problem.... :) ( needs to be fixed downstream to fc8 )
> >
> > The culprit is the smartd-conf.py is missing,
> > Maybe the ubuntu upstart virus got it.. :s
> >     
>
> That for some time lives in a separate package smartmontools-config.
> Here is a relevant changelog entry (you can see find it yourself
> with 'rpm -q --changelog smartmontools | less'):
>
> * Thu Jun 21 2007 Tomas Smetana <tsmetana redhat com> - 1:5.37-4
> - fix #241389 - smartd-conf.py pulls in a big dependency chain, so
>   build a separate config package
>
>       Michal
>
>   
Either smartd-conf.py should be put back to the smartmontools package
and dep sacrfices made so users get correctly configured smartd.conf
or refrence to the script removed from the smartd init script and added
( or new smartd init script created ) when smartmontools-config
is installed.

The proper soulution to this would be to create a new smartd-conf script 
that
does not have to pull inn so many "dependency".

Until this is sorted out, this package should be removed from default set
of installation packages, It's a bad habit starting to deliver half working
system to the end user...

Best regards
               Johann B.