Re: Debian Wheezy - HP Pavilion dm1
On Sun, 2013-10-20 at 22:21 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Sun, 2013-10-20 at 13:03 -0700, Gregory Nowak wrote:
> > On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 09:37:12PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> > > I don't know, but if it's running as a daemon it likely does write a log
> > > file. The Internet is your friend, I can't continue now, perhaps I can
> > > try to help again tomorrow.
> >
> > Yes, smartd writes info to /var/log/daemon.log. When you installed
> > smartmontools, you should have edited /etc/smartd.conf to meet your
> > needs. There are comments in /etc/smartd.conf which explain things,
> > and give examples. If that's not enough, then there is also the
> > smartd.conf(5) man page, and the internet.
> >
> > I would still write the smartctl output to a log on boot as Ralf
> > suggested. That way, you'll be able to find the info you need
> > quickly. Also, I haven't looked at smartd enough to know if it
> > produces all the details that smartctl can in the system logs.
>
> As init script without sudo.
>
> Perhaps not
>
> smartctl -a /dev/sda > /var/log/smartctl-a.log
>
> but
>
> smartctl -a /dev/sda >> /var/log/smartctl-a.log
>
> and echo the date before running smartctl. Also before running smartctl,
> test the size of the log file and do something, if it's very large, e.g.
> delete it.
>
> IOW e.g. something similar to this
>
> echo "$(date "+[%Y-%m-%d %H:%M]")"
> find /var/log/smartctl-a.log -type f -size ADD_THE_MAX_SIZE_HERE -exec rm {} \;
> smartctl -a /dev/sda >> /var/log/smartctl-a.log
Don't delete it, first move the log file to smartctl-a.log.old and if
the new smartctl-a.log file is to large too, overwrite
smartctl-a.log.old with this file.
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