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NAME

       smartd.conf - SMART Disk Monitoring Daemon Configuration File

FULL PATH

       /etc/smartd.conf

PACKAGE VERSION

       smartmontools-5.40 released 2010-03-16 at 20:48:06

DESCRIPTION

       /etc/smartd.conf is the configuration file for the smartd daemon, which
       monitors the Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology (SMART)
       system built into many ATA-3 and later ATA, IDE and SCSI-3 hard drives.

       If the configuration file /etc/smartd.conf is present, smartd reads  it
       at   startup,   before   fork(2)ing  into  the  background.  If  smartd
       subsequently  receives  a  HUP  signal,  it  will  then   re-read   the
       configuration  file.   If  smartd is running in debug mode, then an INT
       signal will also make it re-read the configuration  file.  This  signal
       can  be  generated  by  typing <CONTROL-C> in the terminal window where
       smartd is running.

CONFIGURATION FILE /etc/smartd.conf

       In the absence of a configuration file, under Linux smartd will try  to
       open the 20 ATA devices /dev/hd[a-t] and the 26 SCSI devices /dev/sd[a-
       z].  Under FreeBSD, smartd will try to open all  existing  ATA  devices
       (with  entries  in  /dev)  /dev/ad[0-9]+  and all existing SCSI devices
       (using CAM subsystem).  Under NetBSD/OpenBSD, smartd will try  to  open
       all  existing ATA devices (with entries in /dev) /dev/wd[0-9]+c and all
       existing SCSI devices /dev/sd[0-9]+c.  Under Solaris smartd will try to
       open  all  entries  "/dev/rdsk/c?t?d?s?"  for  IDE/ATA  and  SCSI  disk
       devices, and entries "/dev/rmt/*" for SCSI tape devices.  Under Windows
       smartd    will    try    to    open    all    entries    "/dev/hd[a-j]"
       ("\\.\PhysicalDrive[0-9]")  for  IDE/ATA  devices  on   WinNT4/2000/XP,
       "/dev/hd[a-d]"  (bitmask  from  "\\.\SMARTVSD")  for IDE/ATA devices on
       Win95/98/98SE/ME, and "/dev/scsi[0-9][0-7]" (ASPI adapter 0-9, ID  0-7)
       for SCSI devices on all versions of Windows.  Under Darwin, smartd will
       open any ATA block storage device.

       This can be annoying if you have an ATA or SCSI device  that  hangs  or
       misbehaves  when  receiving  SMART  commands.   Even  if this causes no
       problems, you may be annoyed by the string of error log messages  about
       block-major devices that can´t be found, and SCSI devices that can´t be
       opened.

       One can avoid this problem, and gain more control  over  the  types  of
       events   monitored   by   smartd,   by  using  the  configuration  file
       /etc/smartd.conf.  This file contains a list  of  devices  to  monitor,
       with  one  device  per  line.   An  example  file  is included with the
       smartmontools distribution. You will  find  this  sample  configuration
       file  in /usr/share/doc/smartmontools/. For security, the configuration
       file should not be writable by anyone but root. The syntax of the  file
       is as follows:

       ·   There  should  be one device listed per line, although you may have
           lines that are entirely comments or white space.

       ·   Any text following a hash sign ´#´ and up to the end of the line is
           taken to be a comment, and ignored.

       ·   Lines  may  be  continued by using a backslash ´\´ as the last non-
           whitespace or non-comment item on a line.

       ·   Note: a line whose first character is a hash sign ´#´ is treated as
           a  white-space blank line, not as a non-existent line, and will end
           a continuation line.

       Here is an example configuration file.  It´s for illustrative  purposes
       only;  please don´t copy it onto your system without reading to the end
       of the DIRECTIVES Section below!

       ################################################
       # This is an example smartd startup config file
       # /etc/smartd.conf for monitoring three
       # ATA disks, three SCSI disks, six ATA disks
       # behind two 3ware controllers, two disks on a cciss
       # controller, three SATA disks directly connected
       # to the HighPoint Rocket-RAID controller,
       # two SATA disks connected to the HighPoint
       # RocketRAID controller via a pmport
       # device, four SATA disks connected to an Areca
       # RAID controller, and one SATA disk.
       #
       # First ATA disk on two different interfaces. On
       # the second disk, start a long self-test every
       # Sunday between 3 and 4 am.
       #
         /dev/hda -a -m admin@example.com,root@localhost
         /dev/hdc -a -I 194 -I 5 -i 12 -s L/../../7/03
       #
       # SCSI disks. Send a TEST warning email to admin on
       # startup.
       #
         /dev/sda
         /dev/sdb -m admin@example.com -M test
       #
       # Strange device. It´s SCSI. Start a scheduled
       # long self test between 5 and 6 am Monday/Thursday
         /dev/weird -d scsi -s L/../../(1|4)/05
       #
       # An ATA disk may appear as a SCSI device to the
       # OS. If a SCSI to ATA Translation (SAT) layer
       # is between the OS and the device then this can be
       # flagged with the-d satoption. This situation
       # may become common with SATA disks in SAS and FC
       # environments.
         /dev/sda -a -d sat
       #
       # Three disks connected to a MegaRAID controller
       # Start short self-tests daily between 1-2, 2-3, and
       # 3-4 am.
         /dev/sda -d megaraid,0 -a -s S/../.././01
         /dev/sda -d megaraid,1 -a -s S/../.././02
         /dev/sda -d megaraid,2 -a -s S/../.././03
       #
       # Four ATA disks on a 3ware 6/7/8000 controller.
       # Start short self-tests daily between midnight and 1am,
       # 1-2, 2-3, and 3-4 am. Starting with the Linux 2.6
       # kernel series, /dev/sdX is deprecated in favor of
       # /dev/tweN. For example replace /dev/sdc by /dev/twe0
       # and /dev/sdd by /dev/twe1.
         /dev/sdc -d 3ware,0 -a -s S/../.././00
         /dev/sdc -d 3ware,1 -a -s S/../.././01
         /dev/sdd -d 3ware,2 -a -s S/../.././02
         /dev/sdd -d 3ware,3 -a -s S/../.././03
       #
       # Two ATA disks on a 3ware 9000 controller.
       # Start long self-tests Sundays between midnight and
       # 1am and 2-3 am
         /dev/twa0 -d 3ware,0 -a -s L/../../7/00
         /dev/twa0 -d 3ware,1 -a -s L/../../7/02
       #
       # Monitor 2 disks connected to the first HP SmartArray controller which
       # uses the cciss driver. Start long tests on Sunday nights and short
       # self-tests every night and send errors to root
         /dev/cciss/c0d0 -d cciss,0 -a -s (L/../../7/02|S/../.././02) -m root
         /dev/cciss/c0d0 -d cciss,1 -a -s (L/../../7/03|S/../.././03) -m root
       #
       # Three SATA disks on a HighPoint RocketRAID controller.
       # Start short self-tests daily between 1-2, 2-3, and
       # 3-4 am.
       # under Linux
         /dev/sde -d hpt,1/1 -a -s S/../.././01
         /dev/sde -d hpt,1/2 -a -s S/../.././02
         /dev/sde -d hpt,1/3 -a -s S/../.././03
       # or under FreeBSD
       # /dev/hptrr -d hpt,1/1 -a -s S/../.././01
       # /dev/hptrr -d hpt,1/2 -a -s S/../.././02
       # /dev/hptrr -d hpt,1/3 -a -s S/../.././03
       #
       # Two SATA disks connected to a HighPoint RocketRAID
       # via a pmport device. Start long self-tests Sundays
       # between midnight and 1am and 2-3 am.
       # under Linux
         /dev/sde -d hpt,1/4/1 -a -s L/../../7/00
         /dev/sde -d hpt,1/4/2 -a -s L/../../7/02
       # or under FreeBSD
       # /dev/hptrr -d hpt,1/4/1 -a -s L/../../7/00
       # /dev/hptrr -d hpt,1/4/2 -a -s L/../../7/02
       #
       # Three SATA disks connected to an Areca
       # RAID controller. Start long self-tests Sundays
       # between midnight and 3 am.
         /dev/sg2 -d areca,1 -a -s L/../../7/00
         /dev/sg2 -d areca,2 -a -s L/../../7/01
         /dev/sg2 -d areca,3 -a -s L/../../7/02
       #
       # The following line enables monitoring of the
       # ATA Error Log and the Self-Test Error Log.
       # It also tracks changes in both Prefailure
       # and Usage Attributes, apart from Attributes
       # 9, 194, and 231, and shows continued lines:
       #
         /dev/hdd -l error \
                  -l selftest \
                  -t \      # Attributes not tracked:
                  -I 194 \  # temperature
                  -I 231 \  # also temperature
                  -I 9      # power-on hours
       #
       ################################################

CONFIGURATION FILE DIRECTIVES

       If a non-comment entry in the configuration file  is  the  text  string
       DEVICESCAN  in  capital  letters, then smartd will ignore any remaining
       lines in the configuration file, and will scan for devices.  DEVICESCAN
       may optionally be followed by Directives that will apply to all devices
       that are found in the scan.  Please see below for additional details.

       The following are the Directives that may appear following  the  device
       name  or  DEVICESCAN  on any line of the /etc/smartd.conf configuration
       file. Note that these are NOT command-line  options  for  smartd.   The
       Directives below may appear in any order, following the device name.

       For  an  ATA  device,  if no Directives appear, then the device will be
       monitored as if the ´-a´ Directive (monitor all SMART  properties)  had
       been given.

       If  a  SCSI  disk  is  listed,  it  will  be  monitored  at the maximum
       implemented level: roughly equivalent to using  the  ´-H  -l  selftest´
       options  for  an  ATA  disk.   So with the exception of ´-d´, ´-m´, ´-l
       selftest´, ´-s´, and ´-M´, the Directives below are  ignored  for  SCSI
       disks.  For SCSI disks, the ´-m´ Directive sends a warning email if the
       SMART status indicates a disk failure or problem, if the  SCSI  inquiry
       about  disk status fails, or if new errors appear in the self-test log.

       If a 3ware controller is used then the corresponding SCSI (/dev/sd?) or
       character  device  (/dev/twe?  or /dev/twa?) must be listed, along with
       the ´-d 3ware,N´ Directive  (see  below).   The  individual  ATA  disks
       hosted  by the 3ware controller appear to smartd as normal ATA devices.
       Hence all the ATA directives can be used for these disks (but see  note
       below).

       If  an  Areca  controller  is  used then the corresponding SCSI generic
       device  (/dev/sg?)   must  be  listed,  along  with  the  ´-d  areca,N´
       Directive  (see  below).  The individual SATA disks hosted by the Areca
       controller appear to smartd as normal ATA devices.  Hence all  the  ATA
       directives can be used for these disks.  Areca firmware version 1.46 or
       later which  supports  smartmontools  must  be  used;  Please  see  the
       smartctl(8) man page for further details.

       If  a  cciss  controller  is  used  then the corresponding block device
       (/dev/cciss/c?d?) must be listed, along with the ´-d cciss,N´ Directive
       (see below).

       -d TYPE
              Specifies  the  type  of the device.  This Directive may be used
              multiple times for one device, but the arguments ata, scsi, sat,
              marvell,  cciss,N, areca,N, megaraid,N and 3ware,N are mutually-
              exclusive. If more than one is given then smartd  will  use  the
              last one which appears.

              If  none  of  these  three  arguments is given, then smartd will
              first attempt to guess the device type by looking at whether the
              sixth  character  in  the device name is an ´s´ or an ´h´.  This
              will work for  device  names  like  /dev/hda  or  /dev/sdb,  and
              corresponds  to  choosing  ata  or  scsi respectively. If smartd
              can´t guess from this sixth character, then it will  simply  try
              to access the device using first ATA and then SCSI ioctl()s.

              The valid arguments to this Directive are:

              ata - the device type is ATA.  This prevents smartd from issuing
              SCSI commands to an ATA device.

              scsi - the device type  is  SCSI.   This  prevents  smartd  from
              issuing ATA commands to a SCSI device.

              sat  - the device type is SCSI to ATA Translation (SAT).  smartd
              will generate ATA (smart) commands and then package them in  the
              SAT  defined  ATA  PASS  THROUGH SCSI commands. The commands are
              then routed through the  SCSI  pass  through  interface  to  the
              operating  system.  There are two types of ATA PASS THROUGH SCSI
              commands: a 12 byte and 16 byte variant.  smartd can use  either
              and defaults to the 16 byte variant. This can be overridden with
              this syntax: ´-d sat,12´ or ´-d sat,16´.

              marvell - Under Linux, interact with SATA disks  behind  Marvell
              chip-set  controllers  (using  the  Marvell  rather  than libata
              driver).

              megaraid,N - the device consists of one  or  more  SCSI/SAS/SATA
              disks  connected  to  a  MegaRAID  controller.  The non-negative
              integer N (in the range of 0 to  127  inclusive)  denotes  which
              disk  on  the  controller  is monitored.  In log files and email
              messages this disk will be identified as megaraid_disk_XXX  with
              XXX in the range from 000 to 127 inclusive.

              3ware,N - the device consists of one or more ATA disks connected
              to a 3ware RAID controller. The non-negative integer N  (in  the
              range  from  0  to  127  inclusive)  denotes  which  disk on the
              controller is monitored.  In log files and email  messages  this
              disk  will be identified as 3ware_disk_XXX with XXX in the range
              from 000 to 127 inclusive.

              This Directive may at first appear confusing, because the  3ware
              controller  is  a  SCSI  device (such as /dev/sda) and should be
              listed as such in the the configuration file.  However when  the
              ´-d  3ware,N´  Directive is used, then the corresponding disk is
              addressed using native ATA commands which are  ´passed  through´
              the  SCSI driver. All ATA Directives listed in this man page may
              be used.  Note that while you may use  any  of  the  3ware  SCSI
              logical  devices  /dev/sd?  to address any of the physical disks
              (3ware ports), error and log messages will make the  most  sense
              if  you  always list the 3ware SCSI logical device corresponding
              to the particular physical disks.  Please  see  the  smartctl(8)
              man page for further details.

              ATA disks behind 3ware controllers may alternatively be accessed
              via   a   character   device   interface   /dev/twe0-15   (3ware
              6000/7000/8000  controllers) and /dev/twa0-15 (3ware 9000 series
              controllers).  Note that the 9000 series controllers may only be
              accessed  using  the character device interface /dev/twa0-15 and
              not  the  SCSI  device  interface  /dev/sd?.   Please  see   the
              smartctl(8) man page for further details.

              Note  that  older  3w-xxxx  drivers  do  not  pass  the  ´Enable
              Autosave´  (-S  on)  and  ´Enable  Automatic  Offline´  (-o  on)
              commands to the disk, if the SCSI interface is used, and produce
              these types of harmless syslog error messages instead: ´3w-xxxx:
              tw_ioctl():  Passthru  size (123392) too big´. This can be fixed
              by upgrading to version 1.02.00.037  or  later  of  the  3w-xxxx
              driver,   or  by  applying  a  patch  to  older  versions.   See
              http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/     for      instructions.
              Alternatively  use  the character device interfaces /dev/twe0-15
              (3ware 6/7/8000 series controllers) or /dev/twa0-15 (3ware  9000
              series controllers).

              areca,N  -  the  device  consists  of  one  or  more  SATA disks
              connected to  an  Areca  SATA  RAID  controller.   The  positive
              integer  N  (in  the range from 1 to 24 inclusive) denotes which
              disk on the controller is monitored.  In  log  files  and  email
              messages this disk will be identifed as areca_disk_XX with XX in
              the range from 01 to 24 inclusive.

              cciss,N -  the  device  consists  of  one  or  more  SCSI  disks
              connected to a cciss RAID controller. The non-negative integer N
              (in the range from 0 to 15 inclusive) denotes which disk on  the
              controller  is  monitored.  In log files and email messages this
              disk will be identified as cciss_disk_XX with XX  in  the  range
              from 00 to 15 inclusive.

              3ware,  MegaRAID, Areca and cciss controllers are currently ONLY
              supported under Linux.

              hpt,L/M/N - the  device  consists  of  one  or  more  ATA  disks
              connected  to  a HighPoint RocketRAID controller.  The integer L
              is the controller id, the integer M is the channel  number,  and
              the  integer  N  is  the  PMPort  number if it is available. The
              allowed values of L are from 1 to 4 inclusive, M are from 1 to 8
              inclusive and N from 1 to 4 if PMPort available.  And also these
              values are limited by the  model  of  the  HighPoint  RocketRAID
              controller.   In  log files and email messages this disk will be
              identified as hpt_X/X/X and X/X/X is the same as L/M/N, note  if
              no N indicated, N set to the default value 1.

              HighPoint  RocketRAID  controllers  are currently ONLY supported
              under Linux and FreeBSD.

              removable  -  the  device  or  its  media  is  removable.   This
              indicates to smartd that it should continue (instead of exiting,
              which is the default behavior) if the device does not appear  to
              be  present  when smartd is started.  This Directive may be used
              in conjunction with the other ´-d´ Directives.

       -n POWERMODE[,N][,q]
              This ´nocheck´ Directive is used to prevent a  disk  from  being
              spun-up when it is periodically polled by smartd.

              ATA  disks  have  five  different  power  states.  In  order  of
              increasing  power  consumption   they   are:   ´OFF´,   ´SLEEP´,
              ´STANDBY´,  ´IDLE´,  and ´ACTIVE´.  Typically in the OFF, SLEEP,
              and STANDBY modes the disk´s  platters  are  not  spinning.  But
              usually,  in  response  to  SMART commands issued by smartd, the
              disk platters are spun up.  So if this option is not used,  then
              a  disk which is in a low-power mode may be spun up and put into
              a higher-power mode when it is periodically polled by smartd.

              Note that if the disk is in SLEEP mode when smartd  is  started,
              then  it won’t respond to smartd commands, and so the disk won’t
              be registered as a device for smartd to monitor. If a disk is in
              any  other low-power mode, then the commands issued by smartd to
              register the disk will probably cause it to spin-up.

              The ´-n´ (nocheck)  Directive  specifies  if  smartd´s  periodic
              checks  should  still  be  carried  out  when the device is in a
              low-power mode.  It may be used to prevent  a  disk  from  being
              spun-up  by  periodic  smartd  polling.   The  allowed values of
              POWERMODE are:

              never - smartd will poll (check) the device  regardless  of  its
              power  mode.  This  may  cause  a  disk which is spun-down to be
              spun-up when smartd checks it.  This is the default behavior  if
              the ’-n’ Directive is not given.

              sleep - check the device unless it is in SLEEP mode.

              standby  -  check  the  device  unless it is in SLEEP or STANDBY
              mode.  In these modes most disks are not  spinning,  so  if  you
              want  to  prevent  a laptop disk from spinning up each time that
              smartd polls, this is probably what you want.

              idle - check the device unless it is in SLEEP, STANDBY  or  IDLE
              mode.  In the IDLE state, most disks are still spinning, so this
              is probably not what you want.

              Maximum number of skipped checks (in a row) can be specified  by
              appending   positive   number   ´,N´   to  POWERMODE  (like  ´-n
              standby,15´).  After N checks are skipped in a row, powermode is
              ignored and the check is performed anyway.

              When  a  periodic  test  is  skipped,  smartd normally writes an
              informal log message. The message can be suppressed by appending
              the  option  ´,q´  to  POWERMODE  (like  ´-n  standby,q´).  This
              prevents a laptop disk from spinning up due to this message.

              Both ´,N´ and ´,q´ can be specified together.

       -T TYPE
              Specifies  how  tolerant  smartd  should  be  of  SMART  command
              failures.  The valid arguments to this Directive are:

              normal  -  do  not  try to monitor the disk if a mandatory SMART
              command fails, but continue if an optional SMART command  fails.
              This is the default.

              permissive  - try to monitor the disk even if it appears to lack
              SMART capabilities.  This may be required  for  some  old  disks
              (prior  to  ATA-3  revision 4) that implemented SMART before the
              SMART   standards   were   incorporated   into   the   ATA/ATAPI
              Specifications.   This  may also be needed for some Maxtor disks
              which fail to comply  with  the  ATA  Specifications  and  don’t
              properly indicate support for error- or self-test logging.

              [Please see the smartctl -T command-line option.]

       -o VALUE
              Enables  or disables SMART Automatic Offline Testing when smartd
              starts up and has no further effect.   The  valid  arguments  to
              this Directive are on and off.

              The  delay  between  tests  is vendor-specific, but is typically
              four hours.

              Note that SMART Automatic Offline Testing is not part of the ATA
              Specification.   Please  see the smartctl -o command-line option
              documentation for further information about this feature.

       -S VALUE
              Enables or disables Attribute Autosave when smartd starts up and
              has  no  further  effect.  The valid arguments to this Directive
              are on and off.  Also affects SCSI  devices.   [Please  see  the
              smartctl -S command-line option.]

       -H     Check  the  SMART  health status of the disk.  If any Prefailure
              Attributes are less than or equal  to  their  threshold  values,
              then  disk  failure  is  predicted  in less than 24 hours, and a
              message at loglevel ´LOG_CRITICAL´ will  be  logged  to  syslog.
              [Please see the smartctl -H command-line option.]

       -l TYPE
              Reports  increases  in  the  number  of errors in one of the two
              SMART logs.  The valid arguments to this Directive are:

              error - report if the number of ATA errors reported in  the  ATA
              Error Log has increased since the last check.

              selftest  - report if the number of failed tests reported in the
              SMART Self-Test Log has increased since the last  check,  or  if
              the  timestamp  associated  with the most recent failed test has
              increased.  Note that such errors will only be logged if you run
              self-tests  on  the disk (and it fails a test!).  Self-Tests can
              be run automatically by smartd: please see  the  ´-s´  Directive
              below.   Self-Tests  can  also  be  run  manually  by  using the
              ´-t short´ and ´-t long´ options of smartctl and the results  of
              the  testing  can  be  observed using the smartctl ´-l selftest´
              command-line option.]

              [Please see the smartctl -l and -t command-line options.]

       -s REGEXP
              Run Self-Tests or Offline Immediate Tests, at  scheduled  times.
              A  Self-  or  Offline  Immediate  Test will be run at the end of
              periodic device polling, if all  12  characters  of  the  string
              T/MM/DD/d/HH match the extended regular expression REGEXP. Here:

              T   is the type of the test.  The values that smartd will try to
                  match  (in  turn)  are:  ´L´ for a Long Self-Test, ´S´ for a
                  Short Self-Test, ´C´ for a Conveyance Self-Test (ATA  only),
                  and  ´O´  for an Offline Immediate Test (ATA only).  As soon
                  as a match is  found,  the  test  will  be  started  and  no
                  additional  matches  will be sought for that device and that
                  polling cycle.

                  [NEW EXPERIMENTAL SMARTD FEATURE] To run scheduled Selective
                  Self-Tests, use ´n´ for next span, ´r´ to redo last span, or
                  ´c´ to continue with next span or redo last  span  based  on
                  status  of  last  test.  The LBA range is based on the first
                  span  from   the   last   test.    See   the   smartctl   -t
                  select,[next|redo|cont] options for further info.

              MM  is the month of the year, expressed with two decimal digits.
                  The range is from 01 (January) to 12  (December)  inclusive.
                  Do  not  use a single decimal digit or the match will always
                  fail!

              DD  is the day of the month, expressed with two decimal  digits.
                  The  range  is from 01 to 31 inclusive.  Do not use a single
                  decimal digit or the match will always fail!

              d   is the day of the week, expressed with  one  decimal  digit.
                  The range is from 1 (Monday) to 7 (Sunday) inclusive.

              HH  is the hour of the day, written with two decimal digits, and
                  given in hours after midnight.  The range is 00 (midnight to
                  just  before  1am)  to  23  (11pm  to  just before midnight)
                  inclusive.  Do not use a single decimal digit or  the  match
                  will always fail!

              Some  examples  follow.   In reading these, keep in mind that in
              extended regular  expressions  a  dot  ´.´  matches  any  single
              character,  and  a  parenthetical  expression  such as ´(A|B|C)´
              denotes any one of the three possibilities A, B, or C.

              To schedule a short Self-Test between 2-3am every morning, use:
               -s S/../.././02
              To schedule a long Self-Test between 4-5am every Sunday morning,
              use:
               -s L/../../7/04
              To  schedule  a  long Self-Test between 10-11pm on the first and
              fifteenth day of each month, use:
               -s L/../(01|15)/./22
              To schedule an Offline Immediate test after every midnight, 6am,
              noon,and  6pm,  plus a Short Self-Test daily at 1-2am and a Long
              Self-Test every Saturday at 3-4am, use:
               -s (O/../.././(00|06|12|18)|S/../.././01|L/../../6/03)
              If Long Self-Tests of a large disks take longer than the  system
              uptime,  a  full disk test can be performed by several Selective
              Self-Tests.  To setup a full test of a 1TB disk within  20  days
              (one 50GB span each day), run this command once:
                smartctl -t select,0-99999999 /dev/sda
              To run the next test spans on Monday-Friday between 12-13am, run
              smartd with this directive:
               -s n/../../[1-5]/12

              Scheduled tests are run  immediately  following  the  regularly-
              scheduled  device  polling, if the current local date, time, and
              test type, match REGEXP.   By  default  the  regularly-scheduled
              device  polling  occurs  every  thirty  minutes  after  starting
              smartd.  Take caution if you use the ´-i´ option  to  make  this
              polling  interval  more  than  sixty minutes: the poll times may
              fail to coincide with any of the testing  times  that  you  have
              specified  with  REGEXP.   In  this  case  the  test will be run
              following the next device polling.

              Before running an offline or self-test, smartd checks to be sure
              that  a  self-test  is  not  already running.  If a self-test is
              already running,  then  this  running  self  test  will  not  be
              interrupted to begin another test.

              smartd  will not attempt to run any type of test if another test
              was already started or run in the same hour.

              To avoid performance problems during system  boot,  smartd  will
              not  attempt to run any scheduled tests following the very first
              device polling (unless ´-q onecheck´ is specified).

              Each time a test is run, smartd will log  an  entry  to  SYSLOG.
              You  can  use these or the ’-q showtests’ command-line option to
              verify that you  constructed  REGEXP  correctly.   The  matching
              order  (L  before  S before C before O) ensures that if multiple
              test types are all scheduled for the same hour, the longer  test
              type has precedence.  This is usually the desired behavior.

              If  the  scheduled  tests  are  used  in  conjunction with state
              persistence (´-s´ option), smartd will also  try  to  match  the
              hours  since  last  shutdown  (or  90 days at most). If any test
              would have been started during downtime, the longest (see above)
              of these tests is run after second device polling.

              If  the  ´-n´  directive  is  used  and any test would have been
              started during disk standby time, the longest of these tests  is
              run when the disk is active again.

              Unix  users:  please  beware that the rules for extended regular
              expressions [regex(7)]  are  not  the  same  as  the  rules  for
              file-name  pattern matching by the shell [glob(7)].  smartd will
              issue harmless informational  warning  messages  if  it  detects
              characters  in REGEXP that appear to indicate that you have made
              this mistake.

       -m ADD Send a warning email to the email address ADD if the ´-H´, ´-l´,
              ´-f´,  ´-C´, or ´-O´ Directives detect a failure or a new error,
              or if a SMART command to the disk  fails.  This  Directive  only
              works  in  conjunction  with these other Directives (or with the
              equivalent default ´-a´ Directive).

              To prevent your email in-box from getting filled up with warning
              messages, by default only a single warning will be sent for each
              of the enabled alert types, ´-H´, ´-l´, ´-f´, ´-C´, or ´-O´ even
              if  more than one failure or error is detected or if the failure
              or error persists.  [This behavior can be modified; see the ´-M´
              Directive below.]

              To  send  email  to more than one user, please use the following
              "comma      separated"      form      for      the      address:
              user1@add1,user2@add2,...,userN@addN (with no spaces).

              To  test  that  email is being sent correctly, use the ´-M test´
              Directive described below to send  one  test  email  message  on
              smartd startup.

              By  default,  email  is  sent using the system mail command.  In
              order that smartd find the mail command (normally /bin/mail)  an
              executable  named  ´mail´  must  be  in the path of the shell or
              environment from which smartd  was  started.   If  you  wish  to
              specify  an  explicit  path  to the mail executable (for example
              /usr/local/bin/mail) or a custom script to run, please  use  the
              ´-M exec´ Directive below.

              Note  that  by default under Solaris, in the previous paragraph,
              ´mailx´ and ´/bin/mailx´ are  used,  since  Solaris  ´/bin/mail´
              does not accept a ´-s´ (Subject) command-line argument.

              On  Windows, the ´Blat´ mailer (http://blat.sourceforge.net/) is
              used by default.  This mailer  uses  a  different  command  line
              syntax, see ´-M exec´ below.

              Note  also that there is a special argument <nomailer> which can
              be given to the ´-m´ Directive in conjunction with the ´-M exec´
              Directive. Please see below for an explanation of its effect.

              If the mailer or the shell running it produces any STDERR/STDOUT
              output, then a snippet of that output will be copied to  SYSLOG.
              The  remainder  of  the  output  is  discarded.  If problems are
              encountered in sending mail, this should help you to  understand
              and  fix  them.  If you have mail problems, we recommend running
              smartd in debug mode with the ´-d´ flag,  using  the  ´-M  test´
              Directive described below.

              The  following  extension is available on Windows: By specifying
              ´msgbox´ as a mail address, a warning "email" is displayed as  a
              message box on the screen.  Using both ´msgbox´ and regular mail
              addresses is possible, if ´msgbox´ is  the  first  word  in  the
              comma  separated list.  With ´sysmsgbox´, a system modal (always
              on top) message box is used. If running as a service, a  service
              notification  message  box  (always  shown  on  current  visible
              desktop) is used.

       -M TYPE
              These  Directives  modify  the  behavior  of  the  smartd  email
              warnings  enabled with the ´-m´ email Directive described above.
              These ´-M´ Directives only work in  conjunction  with  the  ´-m´
              Directive and can not be used without it.

              Multiple  -M  Directives  may be given.  If more than one of the
              following three -M Directives are given  (example:  -M  once  -M
              daily) then the final one (in the example, -M daily) is used.

              The  valid  arguments  to  the  -M  Directive  are  (one  of the
              following three):

              once - send only one warning email for each type of disk problem
              detected.  This is the default.

              daily  -  send additional warning reminder emails, once per day,
              for each type of disk problem detected.

              diminishing - send additional warning reminder emails,  after  a
              one-day  interval,  then  a  two-day  interval,  then a four-day
              interval, and so on for each type of disk problem detected. Each
              interval is twice as long as the previous interval.

              In  addition,  one  may  add  zero  or  more  of  the  following
              Directives:

              test - send a single test email immediately upon smartd startup.
              This  allows  one  to  verify that email is delivered correctly.
              Note that if this Directive is used, smartd will also  send  the
              normal email warnings that were enabled with the ´-m´ Directive,
              in addition to the single test email!

              exec PATH - run the executable PATH instead of the default  mail
              command, when smartd needs to send email.  PATH must point to an
              executable binary file or script.

              By setting PATH to point to a customized script,  you  can  make
              smartd  perform  useful  tricks  when a disk problem is detected
              (beeping the console, shutting down  the  machine,  broadcasting
              warnings  to  all logged-in users, etc.)  But please be careful.
              smartd will block until the executable PATH returns, so if  your
              executable  hangs,  then  smartd  will  also  hang.  Some sample
              scripts              are               included               in
              /usr/share/doc/smartmontools/examplescripts/.

              The  return  status  of  the executable is recorded by smartd in
              SYSLOG. The executable is not expected to  write  to  STDOUT  or
              STDERR.  If it does, then this is interpreted as indicating that
              something is going wrong with your executable, and a fragment of
              this  output  is  logged to SYSLOG to help you to understand the
              problem.  Normally, if you wish to leave some record behind, the
              executable should send mail or write to a file or device.

              Before   running   the  executable,  smartd  sets  a  number  of
              environment variables.  These environment variables may be  used
              to control the executable´s behavior.  The environment variables
              exported by smartd are:

              SMARTD_MAILER
                  is set to the argument of -M exec, if  present  or  else  to
                  ´mail´ (examples: /bin/mail, mail).

              SMARTD_DEVICE
                  is set to the device path (examples: /dev/hda, /dev/sdb).

              SMARTD_DEVICETYPE
                  is  set  to  the  device  type  (possible values: ata, scsi,
                  3ware,N, cciss,N,  areca,N,  hpt,L/M/N).   Here  N=0,...,127
                  denotes the ATA disk behind a 3ware or cciss RAID controller
                  and  L/M/N  denotes  the  SATA  disk  behind   a   HighPoint
                  RocketRAID controller.

              SMARTD_DEVICESTRING
                  is  set to the device description.  For SMARTD_DEVICETYPE of
                  ata or scsi, this is the same as SMARTD_DEVICE.   For  3ware
                  RAID    controllers,    the    form    used   is   ´/dev/sdc
                  [3ware_disk_01]´.  For HighPoint RocketRAID controller,  the
                  form  is  ´/dev/sdd  [hpt_1/1/1]´ under Linux or ´/dev/hptrr
                  [hpt_1/1/1]´ under FreeBSD.  For Areca controllers, the form
                  is  ´/dev/sg2  [areca_disk_09]´.   In these cases the device
                  string contains a space  and  is  NOT  quoted.   So  to  use
                  $SMARTD_DEVICESTRING  in  a  bash script you should probably
                  enclose it in double quotes.

              SMARTD_FAILTYPE
                  gives the reason for the  warning  or  message  email.   The
                  possible values that it takes and their meanings are:
                  EmailTest: this is an email test message.
                  Health:  the SMART health status indicates imminent failure.
                  Usage: a usage Attribute has failed.
                  SelfTest: the number of self-test failures has increased.
                  ErrorCount: the number of errors in the ATA  error  log  has
                  increased.
                  CurrentPendingSector:  one of more disk sectors could not be
                  read and are marked to be reallocated (replaced  with  spare
                  sectors).
                  OfflineUncorrectableSector:   during  off-line  testing,  or
                  self-testing, one or more disk sectors could not be read.
                  FailedHealthCheck: the SMART health status command failed.
                  FailedReadSmartData: the command  to  read  SMART  Attribute
                  data failed.
                  FailedReadSmartErrorLog: the command to read the SMART error
                  log failed.
                  FailedReadSmartSelfTestLog: the command to  read  the  SMART
                  self-test log failed.
                  FailedOpenDevice: the open() command to the device failed.

              SMARTD_ADDRESS
                  is  determined  by  the  address  argument  ADD  of the ´-m´
                  Directive.  If ADD is <nomailer>, then SMARTD_ADDRESS is not
                  set.   Otherwise,  it  is set to the comma-separated-list of
                  email addresses given by the argument ADD, with  the  commas
                  replaced  by  spaces  (example:admin@example.com  root).  If
                  more than one email address is given, then this string  will
                  contain  space characters and is NOT quoted, so to use it in
                  a bash script you may want to enclose it in double quotes.

              SMARTD_MESSAGE
                  is set to the one sentence  summary  warning  email  message
                  string  from  smartd.   This  message  string contains space
                  characters and is NOT quoted. So to use $SMARTD_MESSAGE in a
                  bash script you should probably enclose it in double quotes.

              SMARTD_FULLMESSAGE
                  is set to the contents of the entire email  warning  message
                  string  from smartd.  This message string contains space and
                  return  characters  and   is   NOT   quoted.   So   to   use
                  $SMARTD_FULLMESSAGE  in  a  bash  script you should probably
                  enclose it in double quotes.

              SMARTD_TFIRST
                  is a text string giving the time and date at which the first
                  problem of this type was reported. This text string contains
                  space characters and no newlines, and  is  NOT  quoted.  For
                  example:
                  Sun Feb  9 14:58:19 2003 CST

              SMARTD_TFIRSTEPOCH
                  is  an  integer,  which is the unix epoch (number of seconds
                  since Jan 1, 1970) for SMARTD_TFIRST.

              The shell which is used to run  PATH  is  system-dependent.  For
              vanilla  Linux/glibc  it´s bash. For other systems, the man page
              for popen(3) should say what shell is used.

              If the ´-m  ADD´  Directive  is  given  with  a  normal  address
              argument,  then the executable pointed to by PATH will be run in
              a shell with STDIN receiving the body of the email message,  and
              with the same command-line arguments:
              -s "$SMARTD_SUBJECT" $SMARTD_ADDRESS
              that would normally be provided to ´mail´.  Examples include:
              -m user@home -M exec /bin/mail
              -m admin@work -M exec /usr/local/bin/mailto
              -m root -M exec /Example_1/bash/script/below

              Note that on Windows, the syntax of the ´Blat´ mailer is used:
              - -q -subject "$SMARTD_SUBJECT" -to "$SMARTD_ADDRESS"

              If  the  ´-m  ADD´  Directive  is given with the special address
              argument <nomailer> then the executable pointed to  by  PATH  is
              run  in a shell with no STDIN and no command-line arguments, for
              example:
              -m <nomailer> -M exec /Example_2/bash/script/below
              If the executable produces any STDERR/STDOUT output, then smartd
              assumes  that  something  is  going wrong, and a snippet of that
              output will be copied to SYSLOG.  The remainder of the output is
              then discarded.

              Some  EXAMPLES  of  scripts  that can be used with the ´-M exec´
              Directive are given below. Some sample scripts are also included
              in /usr/share/doc/smartmontools/examplescripts/.

       -f     Check   for   ´failure´  of  any  Usage  Attributes.   If  these
              Attributes are less than or equal to the threshold, it does  NOT
              indicate  imminent  disk  failure.   It  "indicates  an advisory
              condition where the usage or age of the device has exceeded  its
              intended  design  life  period."   [Please  see  the smartctl -A
              command-line option.]

       -p     Report anytime that a Prefail Attribute has  changed  its  value
              since  the  last check, 30 minutes ago. [Please see the smartctl
              -A command-line option.]

       -u     Report anytime that a Usage  Attribute  has  changed  its  value
              since  the  last check, 30 minutes ago. [Please see the smartctl
              -A command-line option.]

       -t     Equivalent to turning on the two previous flags ´-p´  and  ´-u´.
              Tracks  changes  in  all  device Attributes (both Prefailure and
              Usage). [Please see the smartctl -A command-line option.]

       -i ID  Ignore device Attribute number ID when checking for  failure  of
              Usage  Attributes.   ID  must  be a decimal integer in the range
              from 1 to 255.  This Directive modifies the behavior of the ´-f´
              Directive and has no effect without it.

              This  is  useful,  for  example, if you have a very old disk and
              don´t want to keep getting messages about the  hours-on-lifetime
              Attribute  (usually  Attribute  9)  failing.  This Directive may
              appear multiple times for a single device, if you want to ignore
              multiple Attributes.

       -I ID  Ignore   device  Attribute  ID  when  tracking  changes  in  the
              Attribute values.  ID must be a decimal  integer  in  the  range
              from  1  to  255.   This  Directive modifies the behavior of the
              ´-p´, ´-u´, and ´-t´  tracking  Directives  and  has  no  effect
              without one of them.

              This  is useful, for example, if one of the device Attributes is
              the disk  temperature  (usually  Attribute  194  or  231).  It´s
              annoying to get reports each time the temperature changes.  This
              Directive may appear multiple times for a single device, if  you
              want to ignore multiple Attributes.

       -r ID[!]
              When  tracking,  report the Raw value of Attribute ID along with
              its (normally reported) Normalized value.  ID must be a  decimal
              integer in the range from 1 to 255.  This Directive modifies the
              behavior of the ´-p´, ´-u´, and ´-t´ tracking Directives and has
              no  effect  without  one  of  them.  This Directive may be given
              multiple times.

              A  common  use  of  this  Directive  is  to  track  the   device
              Temperature (often ID=194 or 231).

              If the optional flag ´!´ is appended, a change of the Normalized
              value is considered critical.  The  report  will  be  logged  as
              LOG_CRIT  and a warning email will be sent if ´-m´ is specified.

       -R ID[!]
              When tracking, report whenever the Raw  value  of  Attribute  ID
              changes.   (Normally  smartd  only tracks/reports changes of the
              Normalized Attribute values.)  ID must be a decimal  integer  in
              the  range  from 1 to 255.  This Directive modifies the behavior
              of the ´-p´, ´-u´, and  ´-t´  tracking  Directives  and  has  no
              effect  without  one  of  them.   This  Directive  may  be given
              multiple times.

              If this Directive is given, it automatically  implies  the  ´-r´
              Directive  for  the same Attribute, so that the Raw value of the
              Attribute is reported.

              A  common  use  of  this  Directive  is  to  track  the   device
              Temperature  (often  ID=194  or  231).   It  is  also useful for
              understanding how different types of system behavior affects the
              values of certain Attributes.

              If  the optional flag ´!´ is appended, a change of the Raw value
              is considered critical.  The report will be logged  as  LOG_CRIT
              and  a  warning  email  will  be  sent if ´-m´ is specified.  An
              example is ´-R 5!´ to warn when new sectors are reallocated.

       -C ID[+]
              [ATA only] Report if the current number of  pending  sectors  is
              non-zero.   Here  ID is the id number of the Attribute whose raw
              value is the Current Pending Sector count.  The allowed range of
              ID  is  0  to  255  inclusive.   To turn off this reporting, use
              ID = 0.  If the -C ID option is not given, then it  defaults  to
              -C 197 (since Attribute 197 is generally used to monitor pending
              sectors).

              If ´+´ is specified, a report is only printed if the  number  of
              sectors  has  increased  between two check cycles. Some disks do
              not reset this attribute when a bad sector is reallocated.   See
              also ´-v 197,increasing´ below.

              A  pending sector is a disk sector (containing 512 bytes of your
              data) which  the  device  would  like  to  mark  as  ‘‘bad"  and
              reallocate.   Typically  this  is because your computer tried to
              read that sector, and the read failed because the data on it has
              been   corrupted   and   has  inconsistent  Error  Checking  and
              Correction (ECC) codes.  This is important to know,  because  it
              means  that  there  is  some  unreadable  data on the disk.  The
              problem of figuring out  what  file  this  data  belongs  to  is
              operating  system  and  file system specific.  You can typically
              force the sector to reallocate by writing  to  it  (translation:
              make  the device substitute a spare good sector for the bad one)
              but at the price of losing the 512 bytes of data stored there.

       -U ID[+]
              [ATA only] Report if the number of offline uncorrectable sectors
              is  non-zero.   Here  ID is the id number of the Attribute whose
              raw value  is  the  Offline  Uncorrectable  Sector  count.   The
              allowed  range  of  ID  is 0 to 255 inclusive.  To turn off this
              reporting, use ID = 0.  If the -U ID option is not  given,  then
              it  defaults to -U 198 (since Attribute 198 is generally used to
              monitor offline uncorrectable sectors).

              If ´+´ is specified, a report is only printed if the  number  of
              sectors  has increased since the last check cycle. Some disks do
              not reset this attribute when a bad sector is reallocated.   See
              also ´-v 198,increasing´ below.

              An  offline  uncorrectable sector is a disk sector which was not
              readable during an  off-line  scan  or  a  self-test.   This  is
              important  to know, because if you have data stored in this disk
              sector, and you need to read it, the read will fail.  Please see
              the previous ´-C´ option for more details.

       -W DIFF[,INFO[,CRIT]]
              Report  if  the current temperature had changed by at least DIFF
              degrees since last report, or if new min or max  temperature  is
              detected.  Report or Warn if the temperature is greater or equal
              than one of INFO or CRIT degrees Celsius.  If the limit CRIT  is
              reached,  a  message with loglevel ´LOG_CRITICAL´ will be logged
              to syslog and a warning email will be send if ’-m’ is specified.
              If  only  the  limit  INFO  is  reached, a message with loglevel
              ´LOG_INFO´ will be logged.

              If this directive is used in conjunction with state  persistence
              (´-s´  option), the min and max temperature values are preserved
              across boot cycles. The minimum temperature value is not updated
              during the first 30 minutes after startup.

              To  disable any of the 3 reports, set the corresponding limit to
              0.  Trailing zero arguments may  be  omitted.  By  default,  all
              temperature reports are disabled (´-W 0´).

              To track temperature changes of at least 2 degrees, use:
               -W 2
              To log informal messages on temperatures of at least 40 degrees,
              use:
               -W 0,40
              For warning  messages/mails  on  temperatures  of  at  least  45
              degrees, use:
               -W 0,0,45
              To combine all of the above reports, use:
               -W 2,40,45

              For  ATA devices, smartd interprets Attribute 194 as Temperature
              Celsius by default. This can be changed to Attribute 9 or 220 by
              the drive database or by the ´-v´ directive, see below.

       -F TYPE
              [ATA  only]  Modifies  the  behavior of smartd to compensate for
              some known and understood device firmware bug.  The arguments to
              this  Directive  are exclusive, so that only the final Directive
              given is used.  The valid values are:

              none  -  Assume  that  the  device  firmware   obeys   the   ATA
              specifications.   This  is  the  default,  unless the device has
              presets for ´-F´ in the device database.

              samsung - In some Samsung disks (example: model SV4012H Firmware
              Version:  RM100-08) some of the two- and four-byte quantities in
              the SMART data structures are byte-swapped (relative to the  ATA
              specification).   Enabling  this option tells smartd to evaluate
              these quantities in byte-reversed order.  Some signs  that  your
              disk  needs  this  option are (1) no self-test log printed, even
              though you have run self-tests; (2) very large  numbers  of  ATA
              errors reported in the ATA error log; (3) strange and impossible
              values for the ATA error log timestamps.

              samsung2 - In more  recent  Samsung  disks  (firmware  revisions
              ending  in  "-23")  the  number  of  ATA errors reported is byte
              swapped.  Enabling this option tells  smartd  to  evaluate  this
              quantity in byte-reversed order.

              samsung3  -  Some  Samsung disks (at least SP2514N with Firmware
              VF100-37) report a self-test still in progress with 0% remaining
              when  the  test  was  already  completed.  If  this directive is
              specified, smartd will not skip  the  next  scheduled  self-test
              (see Directive ´-s´ above) in this case.

              Note  that  an explicit ´-F´ Directive will over-ride any preset
              values for ´-F´ (see the ´-P´ option below).

              [Please see the smartctl -F command-line option.]

       -v ID,FORMAT[:BYTEORDER][,NAME]
              [ATA only] Sets a vendor-specific raw  value  print  FORMAT,  an
              optional  BYTEORDER and an optional NAME for Attribute ID.  This
              directive may be used multiple times.  Please  see  smartctl  -v
              command-line option for further details.

              The following arguments affect smartd warning output:

              197,increasing  -  Raw  Attribute  number  197  (Current Pending
              Sector  Count)  is  not  reset  if  uncorrectable  sectors   are
              reallocated.   This sets ´-C 197+´ if no other ´-C´ directive is
              specified.

              198,increasing - Raw Attribute number 198 (Offline Uncorrectable
              Sector   Count)   is  not  reset  if  uncorrectable  sector  are
              reallocated.  This sets ´-U 198+´ if no other ´-U´ directive  is
              specified.

       -P TYPE
              Specifies  whether smartd should use any preset options that are
              available for this drive.  The valid arguments to this Directive
              are:

              use  -  use any presets that are available for this drive.  This
              is the default.

              ignore - do not use any presets for this drive.

              show - show the presets listed for this drive in the database.

              showall - show the presets that are available for all drives and
              then exit.

              [Please see the smartctl -P command-line option.]

       -a     Equivalent  to  turning on all of the following Directives: ´-H´
              to check the SMART health status, ´-f´  to  report  failures  of
              Usage (rather than Prefail) Attributes, ´-t´ to track changes in
              both Prefailure and Usage Attributes,  ´-l selftest´  to  report
              increases  in  the number of Self-Test Log errors, ´-l error´ to
              report increases in the number of ATA errors, ´-C 197´ to report
              nonzero values of the current pending sector count, and ´-U 198´
              to report nonzero values of the offline pending sector count.

              Note that -a is the default for ATA devices.  If none  of  these
              other Directives is given, then -a is assumed.

       #      Comment: ignore the remainder of the line.

       \      Continuation  character:  if  this is the last non-white or non-
              comment character on a  line,  then  the  following  line  is  a
              continuation of the current one.

       If  you  are  not sure which Directives to use, I suggest experimenting
       for a few minutes with smartctl to see what  SMART  functionality  your
       disk(s)  support(s).   If you do not like voluminous syslog messages, a
       good choice of smartd configuration file Directives might be:
       -H -l selftest -l error -f.
       If you want more frequent information, use: -a.

       ADDITIONAL DETAILS ABOUT DEVICESCAN
              If a non-comment entry in the configuration  file  is  the  text
              string  DEVICESCAN  in  capital letters, then smartd will ignore
              any remaining lines in the configuration file, and will scan for
              devices.

              [NEW  EXPERIMENTAL  SMARTD  FEATURE]  Configuration  entries for
              devices not found by the platform-specific device  scanning  may
              precede the DEVICESCAN entry.

              If  DEVICESCAN  is  not  followed by any Directives, then smartd
              will scan for both ATA and SCSI devices, and  will  monitor  all
              possible SMART properties of any devices that are found.

              DEVICESCAN  may  optionally be followed by any valid Directives,
              which will be applied to all devices that are found in the scan.
              For example
              DEVICESCAN -m root@example.com
              will  scan for all devices, and then monitor them.  It will send
              one email warning per device for any problems that are found.
              DEVICESCAN -d ata -m root@example.com
              will do the same, but restricts the scan to ATA devices only.
              DEVICESCAN -H -d ata -m root@example.com
              will do the same, but only monitors the SMART health  status  of
              the  devices,  (rather  than  the default -a, which monitors all
              SMART properties).

       EXAMPLES OF SHELL SCRIPTS FOR ´-M exec´
              These are two examples of shell scripts that can  be  used  with
              the ´-M exec PATH´ Directive described previously.  The paths to
              these scripts and similar executables is the  PATH  argument  to
              the ´-M exec PATH´ Directive.

              Example  1:  This  script  is  for  use with ´-m ADDRESS -M exec
              PATH´.  It appends the output of smartctl -a to  the  output  of
              the smartd email warning message and sends it to ADDRESS.

              #! /bin/bash

              # Save the email message (STDIN) to a file:
              cat > /root/msg

              # Append the output of smartctl -a to the message:
              /usr/sbin/smartctl -a -d $SMART_DEVICETYPE $SMARTD_DEVICE >> /root/msg

              # Now email the message to the user at address ADD:
              /bin/mail -s "$SMARTD_SUBJECT" $SMARTD_ADDRESS < /root/msg

              Example  2:  This  script is for use with ´-m <nomailer> -M exec
              PATH´. It warns  all  users  about  a  disk  problem,  waits  30
              seconds, and then powers down the machine.

              #! /bin/bash

              # Warn all users of a problem
              wall ´Problem detected with disk: ´ "$SMARTD_DEVICESTRING"
              wall ´Warning message from smartd is: ´ "$SMARTD_MESSAGE"
              wall ´Shutting down machine in 30 seconds... ´

              # Wait half a minute
              sleep 30

              # Power down the machine
              /sbin/shutdown -hf now

              Some  example  scripts  are  distributed  with the smartmontools
              package, in /usr/share/doc/smartmontools/examplescripts/.

              Please note that these scripts typically run  as  root,  so  any
              files  that  they  read/write should not be writable by ordinary
              users or reside in directories like /tmp that  are  writable  by
              ordinary users and may expose your system to symlink attacks.

              As  previously  described,  if  the  scripts  write to STDOUT or
              STDERR, this is interpreted as  indicating  that  there  was  an
              internal error within the script, and a snippet of STDOUT/STDERR
              is logged to SYSLOG.  The remainder is flushed.

AUTHOR

       Bruce Allen smartmontools-support@lists.sourceforge.net
       University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee Physics Department

CONTRIBUTORS

       The following have made large contributions to smartmontools:
       Casper Dik (Solaris SCSI interface)
       Christian Franke (Windows interface, C++ redesign, USB support, ...)
       Douglas Gilbert (SCSI subsystem)
       Guido Guenther (Autoconf/Automake packaging)
       Geoffrey Keating (Darwin ATA interface)
       Eduard Martinescu (FreeBSD interface)
       Frederic L. W. Meunier (Web site and Mailing list)
       Gabriele Pohl (Web site and Wiki, conversion from CVS to SVN)
       Keiji Sawada (Solaris ATA interface)
       Manfred Schwarb (Drive database)
       Sergey Svishchev (NetBSD interface)
       David Snyder and Sergey Svishchev (OpenBSD interface)
       Phil Williams (User interface and drive database)
       Shengfeng Zhou (Linux/FreeBSD HighPoint RocketRAID interface)
       Many other individuals have made smaller contributions and corrections.

CREDITS

       This  code  was derived from the smartsuite package, written by Michael
       Cornwell, and from the previous ucsc  smartsuite  package.  It  extends
       these  to  cover  ATA-5  disks. This code was originally developed as a
       Senior Thesis by Michael Cornwell at the Concurrent Systems  Laboratory
       (now  part  of the Storage Systems Research Center), Jack Baskin School
       of    Engineering,    University    of    California,    Santa    Cruz.
       http://ssrc.soe.ucsc.edu/ .

HOME PAGE FOR SMARTMONTOOLS:

       Please  see  the following web site for updates, further documentation,
       bug reports and patches:
       http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/

SEE ALSO:

       smartd(8),  smartctl(8),  syslogd(8),   syslog.conf(5),   badblocks(8),
       ide-smart(8), regex(7).

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