Re: [smartmontools-support]init script

[R K. <rk...@nt...>]

On Mon, 7 Nov 2005 20:49:17 +0100
Guido Guenther <ag...@si...> wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 02:51:39PM +0000, R Kimber wrote:
> > I'm not sure whether this is a smartd question or a Ubuntu question,
> > but the smartmontools init script on my Ubuntu system doesn't seem
> > to start smartd. To get it running I have to start it from the
> > command line.  Is this right? And if so, what might the script be
> > doing?  Its heading says it is
> > # loosely based on the init script that comes with smartmontools
> > # which is copyrighted 2002 by Bruce Allen
> Since this (presumably) is taken from debian you simply edit
> /etc/default/smartmontools

Ah. Many thanks.

I don't find this system intuitive.  I'm happier with the
standard /etc/init.d/<service> start|stop.  Indeed, it doesn't seem
logical to me to have a service set up complete with links in rcX.d that
doesn't start. Some distributions seem to be getting unnecessarily
complicated, presumably in the name of increased simplicity ;-)

- Richard.
-- 
Richard Kimber
http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/