[mythtv-users] Playback drops with news crawl

[Barry Martin]

>> 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?
> 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.

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.

Barry

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