Re: [smartmontools-support] false alarm from smart

[Robert S <ro...@sp...>]

Since it's smartd issuing the warnings, perhaps posting your config file 
would help.


On 5/27/2017 8:06 AM, Kees van der Wiel wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On my linux-system, s.m.a.r.t. is installed. Since quite a while, I'm 
> getting a disk-health warning. However, this warning concerns a hdd 
> that does not exist in my system.  I could not find a method for 
> peventing s.m.a.r.t. to look for this device, in order to stop these 
> messages. Completely removing and re-installing s.m.a.r.t. did not 
> solve this "problem" either. Could you please tell me what I can do to 
> stop these messages from being produced?
> Here is the message that I keep recieving:
> May 27 14:44:55 kees-MS-7721 smartd[981]: Device: /dev/sdc [SAT], 
> open() failed: No such device
> May 27 14:44:55 kees-MS-7721 smartd[981]: Sending warning via 
> /usr/share/smartmontools/smartd-runner to root ...
> May 27 14:44:55 kees-MS-7721 smartd[981]: Warning via 
> /usr/share/smartmontools/smartd-runner to root produced unexpected 
> output (183 bytes) to STDOUT/STDERR:
> May 27 14:44:55 kees-MS-7721 smartd[981]: /etc/smartmontools/run.d/10mail:
> May 27 14:44:55 kees-MS-7721 smartd[981]: Your system does not have 
> /usr/bin/mail.  Install the mailx or mailutils package
> May 27 14:44:55 kees-MS-7721 smartd[981]: run-parts: 
> /etc/smartmontools/run.d/10mail exited with return code 1
> May 27 14:44:55 kees-MS-7721 smartd[981]: Warning via 
> /usr/share/smartmontools/smartd-runner to root: failed (32-bit/8-bit 
> exit status: 256/1)
>
> Hope to read your reaction,
> Kees
>
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