[CentOS] smartd and palimpsest
Frank Cox
theatre at sasktel.net
Fri Aug 12 17:27:21 UTC 2011
On Fri, 12 Aug 2011 08:11:58 -0400
Robert Heller wrote:
> The disk's *firmware* updated itself.
...
> Appearently, palimpsest does some of what smartctl does: accesses the
> SMART data on the drive. This is completely independent of smartd.
> Smartd is a daemon that runs in the background and periodicly accesses
> the SMART data on the drive(s) and if there is some sort of notworthly
> problem or condition (too hot, bad sectors being remapped, etc.), it
> logs it and sends an E-Mail to root at localhost.
Ah! The light just came on.
Thanks ever so much for the explanation!
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