smartmontools-support

[suresh d. <dss...@ma...>]

<P>Hi all,</P>
<P>I'm using smartmontools-5.32 on cygwin-1.5.12&nbsp; on win2000. I'm usin=
g bash shell in the cygwin. After I run smartd, then I try to quit cygwin b=
y "exit" command, I'm unable to exit out of cygwin. In other&nbsp;words, wh=
enever smartd is running, I'm not able to exit out of the cygwin/bash windo=
w. So, I forcibly kill the cygwin/bash window which kills the smartd also. =
smartd is a daemon; once it is put into to the background as a daemon, why =
should it get killed when I try to exit cygwin?</P>
<P>So, the two questions I'm asking are:</P>
<P>1) When smartd is running (which was started thro' cygwin), why I'm unab=
le to exit cygwin?</P>
<P>2) When I focribly exit cygwin, why it kills smartd also?</P>
<P>3) Why this doesn't get logged? (Normally all the log stuff related to s=
martd in cygwin is logged in the event log in windows).</P>
<P>I've just given below a screen capture on the cygwin.</P>
<P>------------------------------------------------------------------------=
---------------------------------------------------------------------------=
--------</P>
<P>Administrator@IND-suresh ~<BR>$ smartd</P>
<P>Administrator@IND-suresh ~<BR>$ ps -ef<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; UID&n=
bsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; PID&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; PPID TTY&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbs=
p; STIME COMMAND<BR>Administ&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 1568&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;=
&nbsp;&nbsp; 1 con&nbsp; 14:31:46 /usr/bin/bash<BR>Administ&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbs=
p; 2244&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 1&nbsp;&nbsp; ?&nbsp; 14:31:49 =
/usr/sbin/smartd<BR>Administ&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 1060&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 1568 =
con&nbsp; 14:31:53 /usr/bin/ps</P>
<P>Administrator@IND-suresh ~<BR>$ exit<BR>logout</P>
<P>_</P>
<P>------------------------------------------------------------------------=
---------------------------------------------------------------------------=
-------</P>
<P>The "_" below the logout message, is the cursor; the cygwin window just =
hangs at this point; When I forcibly kill it by clicking the close button i=
con on the top right corner of the cygwin window, Win2000 pops up a message=
 box, saying the operation may need more time to to complete. But the point=
s is, I've waited for many, many minutes and it never gets killed ie. I'm n=
ever able to exit out of cygwin. This happens only when smartd is running a=
nd not with any other commands.</P>
<P>At the base, I have win2000. Above that , cygwin. Bash is the shell on t=
he cygwin. And smartd is invoked from bash. So, there are 4 layers, win2000=
, cywin, bash, smartd. Out of these, which is responsible for this problem?=
 I don't know....</P>
<P>Has anyone experienced similar problem when running smartd in cygwin?</P>
<P>Experts... I need help.</P>
<P>thanks</P>
<P>suresh</P>
<P>&nbsp;</P><BR>
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