Re: [smartmontools-support] Smartmontools and ubuntu 10.04

[sam t. <sam...@ya...>]

On 23/05/10 11:57, Derek Lewis wrote:
> I recently setup Ubuntu 10.04 server to act as a NAS. I downloaded the
> source for smartmontools v5.38 and compiled it successfully.
>
> I can run the daemon and the command line tool manually, and the man
> pages are available though I cannot get smartd to start automatically at
> boot.
>
> I went through the INSTALL file in the source directory to look at all
> of the included files and I think some of the paths or links are not set
> properly in default.
>
> I wondered if anyone has compiled and installed smartmontools under
> Ubuntu 10.04 successfully?
>
> Since the v5.38 package is available, I might uninstall my compiled
> attempt and get that.
>
> Derek

did you have a look in /etc/default/smartmontools, and set
start_smartd=yes

see /usr/share/doc/smartmontools/README.Debian for info.

sam