[smartmontools-support] smartmontools on Mac OS X, syslog events

[Scott H. <tal...@ne...>]

Hello, 

I am running smartmontools 5.39.1 on Mac OS X 10.6.  I have installed it via MacPorts (source compiler system), which has given it the configure args of:

    configure.args  --mandir=${prefix}/share/man \
                    --enable-drivedb \
                    --enable-savestates \
                    --enable-attributelog \
                    --enable-sample

${prefix} in my case is /opt/local

My issue is with logging.  On OS X the syslog is called system.log.  The smartd man page states that logging will get directed to FACILITY or daemon [default].  Probably defaulting to 'messages'.

Currently, with the above install arguments, nothing is logged at all.  The only way I know it may be working is that I have set up emails to be sent.  The way MacPorts works is that it can only modify (for the most part) files within it's own ${prefix}.  So editing syslog.conf is not the preferred way to solve this  It would be an edit that has to be explained to all users who install smartmontools on Mac OS X through MacPorts.

I would rather get smartmontools to log to the /var/log/system.log by default.

smartd is started with a launchd (cron like system on BSD/OSX) item via this command:
    /opt/local/sbin/smartd -n

/etc/syslog.conf has this relevant line:
*.notice;authpriv,remoteauth,ftp,install,internal.none	/var/log/system.log

I believe that to solve this, I will need to alter the smartd -n command to add 
    -l FACILITY, --logfacility=FACILITY 
though I am not certain which value I should add.

Thanks for any pointers.
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