Re: [smartmontools-support] systemd and smartmontools

[Christian F. <Chr...@t-...>]

Al Lau wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am seeking help and advise on troubleshooting the starting of the 
> smartd daemon. The /usr/sbin/smartd comes from the smartmontools 
> version 6.3.
>
> The /usr/lib/systemd/system/smartd.service file looks like this
>
> # cat /usr/lib/systemd/system/smartd.service
> [Unit]
> Description=Self Monitoring and Reporting Technology (SMART) Daemon
> Documentation=man:smartd(8) man:smartd.conf(5)
> After=syslog.target
>
> [Service]
> Type=forking
> PIDFile=/run/smartd.pid
> ExecStartPre=/bin/rm -f /run/smartd.pid
> EnvironmentFile=/etc/sysconfig/smartmontools
> ExecStart=/usr/sbin/smartd $smartd_opts
> ExecReload=/bin/kill -HUP $MAINPID
> StandardOutput=syslog
>
> [Install]
> WantedBy=multi-user.target
>
> When "systemctl start smartd.service" is called, the process forks 
> into a daemon. The problem I'm seeing is that the forked process 
> received a SIGTERM signal and exited.  How do I resolve this so that 
> the forked process would not get terminated.
>
> # systemctl status smartd.service
> ...
> Apr 02 17:18:20 007 smartd[7456]: Device: /dev/bus/0 
> [megaraid_disk_19], is SMART capable. Adding to "monitor" list.
> Apr 02 17:18:20 007 smartd[7456]: Monitoring 0 ATA and 12 SCSI devices
> Apr 02 17:18:21 007 systemd[1]: PID file /run/smartd.pid not readable 
> (yet?) after start.
> Apr 02 17:18:21 007 smartd[7463]: smartd has fork()ed into background 
> mode. New PID=7463.
> Apr 02 17:19:49 007 systemd[1]: smartd.service operation timed out. 
> Terminating.

Systemd waits for the PID file but smartd does not create one because 
the -p (--pidfile) option is missing.

You could either:
- Add '-p /run/smartd.pid' to smartd command in ExecStart.
or (better):
- Add  '-n' (--no-fork) to smartd command in ExecStart AND remove Type, 
PIDFile and ExecStartPre from smartd.service file.

See smartd.service.in file from smartmontools source code:
http://www.smartmontools.org/browser/trunk/smartmontools/smartd.service.in?rev=4048

Thanks,
Christian