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class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">Anyway, below are the test results.? I'm thinking your comments would
be a great way for me and the rest of the readers to learn. I'm also
thinking it might be a good idea for me to create a script to look at
the smartctl results to monitor the hard drives in the various
computers around here and so catch any problems early.? So the
sub-question is which items should I be monitoring?
</pre></blockquote><pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">You don't need to write your own script to monitor your drive(s) health.
smartmontools includes smartd (SMART Disk Monitoring Daemon) as well as
smartctl. When you installed smartmontools, it should have done what's
needed to enable the smartd service. The tricky bit is making sure you
get the notifications the way you want them. smartd should automatically
send email to the administrator of the machine where it's running, which
is the user you created when installing your distro. It takes a little
more research and effort to forward that email where you'll notice it.</pre></pre>
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<p>Thanks, faginbagin! I'll look into the easier way! ...The
scripts I've put together here will put up a message window
(xmessage, gxmessage) so get semi-immediate attention of when a
remote computer is off-line. For things like smartmonitor
detecting a bad sector not nearly that critical and an e-mail
would be sufficient.</p>
<p>Barry<br>
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