I'm trying to get smartd working; it is determined that messages will be sent via email via 'mail' which I've never used. But I recall that a few years ago I had smartd sending it's warnings directly to the screen via a popup text box. I'm trying to figure out how to do that again. The info for the 'screen' command baffles me. tmux likewise. Or I suppose it could be a notification. When I have a few weeks to study it, I'll get 'mail' working but for now I'd prefer a popup message anyway.
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In 'smartd.conf':
DEVICESCAN -a -m -M exec notify -M test
... Ok, added full path, much better:
DEVICESCAN -a -m -M exec /bin/notify -M test
... 'notify' runs fine from CLI, is an executable script:
/bin/notify-send "$(systemctl status smartd)"
... but although:
systemctl restart smartd; systemctl status smartd
... reports no errors, I get no 'test' result.
BTW, so far no results at all using those variables you mentioned.
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$ smartd ... shows two notifications, one for each of my two disks! So why does 'systemctl restart smartd' show nothing?
Asked by Ray Andrews
(2615 rep)
Oct 17, 2022, 01:56 PM
Last activity: Oct 17, 2022, 10:08 PM
Last activity: Oct 17, 2022, 10:08 PM