Re: [smartmontools-support] smartd Failed

[Guido G. <ag...@si...>]

Hi Sasha,
is this the debian package or self compiled? What version is this?

On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 03:01:39PM +0100, sasha wrote:
[..snip..] 
> lenny:/home/sasha# /etc/init.d/smartmontools start
> Enabling S.M.A.R.T..../dev/sda...done.
> Starting S.M.A.R.T. daemon: smartd failed!
What's in /var/log/syslog?

[..snip..]
> # List of devices you want to explicitly enable S.M.A.R.T. for
> # Not needed (and not recommended) if the device is monitored by smartd
> enable_smart="/dev/sda"
Please see the comment above. You really shouldn't need this!
 -- Guido