On Fri, 12 Aug 2011 04:05:47 +0000 Joseph L. Casale wrote:
I think you misunderstood the first reply: smartd, as in the init script is a means to alert root of pending issues, _it_ doesn't present the data, _that_ init script simply checks it and reports it. You don't need it running to make the data available, the attributes exist in the device.
Which still doesn't answer my question. Perhaps I'm wording it poorly -- I'll try again:
I load palimpsest and click on the entry for my hard drive, then click on the button labelled "SMART Data" and I see this on the first line of the window that opens:
Updated: 14 minutes ago
My question is, what happened 14 minutes ago? I didn't do anything 14 minutes ago, so something apparently ran in the background and updated that data. What is that something and how often does it run?