last night I checked the log messages on the server Dell PE2950 6xSAS 146G I found the smartd running , I did not request such daemon [root at PowerEdge1 pons]# tail -f /var/log/messages Aug 25 08:27:30 PowerEdge1 smartd[8039]: Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ Aug 25 08:27:30 PowerEdge1 smartd[8039]: Opened configuration file /etc/smartd.conf Aug 25 08:27:30 PowerEdge1 smartd[8039]: Configuration file /etc/smartd.conf parsed. Aug 25 08:27:30 PowerEdge1 smartd[8039]: Device: /dev/sda, opened Aug 25 08:27:30 PowerEdge1 smartd[8039]: Device: /dev/sda, IE (SMART) not enabled, skip device Try 'smartctl -s on /dev/sda' to turn on SMART features Aug 25 08:27:30 PowerEdge1 smartd[8039]: Unable to register SCSI device /dev/sda at line 32 of file /etc/smartd.conf Aug 25 08:27:30 PowerEdge1 smartd[8039]: Device /dev/sda not available Aug 25 08:27:30 PowerEdge1 smartd[8039]: Monitoring 0 ATA and 0 SCSI devices Aug 25 08:27:30 PowerEdge1 smartd[8045]: smartd has fork()ed into background mode. New PID=8045. Aug 25 08:27:31 PowerEdge1 pcscd: winscard.c:304:SCardConnect() Reader E-Gate 0 0 Not Found How can i disable it, do i really need it on my system ... inputs really appreciated. Thanks -- Madunix_at_Gmail Sysadmin "Computers are useless. They can only give you answers" - Pablo Picasso "Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window." - Steve Wozniak -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080825/fbeb24be/attachment-0004.html>