since am using Harware RAID controller, am gonna disable it... and use the monitoring tools of dell Thanks On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 7:50 AM, John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com> wrote: > Mad Unix wrote: > >> 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. >> > > > well, if you configure your disks to enable SMART, it can provide advance > disk failure information. if the disks are on hardware PERC raid, then you > probably cant use SMART, and instead would use whatever RAID controller > monitoring software dell provides... > > > otherwise,, um, like any service,... > > # chkconfig smartd off > # service smartd stop > > will disable it from running on the next boot, and stop it now. > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- 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/e8d7a8da/attachment-0005.html>