Receiving email notification from smartd (smartmontools)

[rogermm]

Hello,

To get information about my HDD drive condition, I configured smartmontools daemon (through smartd.conf) like this:


dev/sdb -I 194 -a -o on -S on -s (S/../.././03|L/../../6/04) \
-m sys@basicstaff.x \
-M exec /usr/share/smartmontools/smartd-runner

Also, by adding “-M test”, I tested email notifications and received test email message.

As you see, each morning my HDD is short tested, but I didn’t receive any email notification about test results.

Probably, notifications are sent when something is getting wrong, am I right on this point? I mean, is it normal not to receive anything if tests are passed ok?

Right now my drive reports OK status with “smartctl -H” command. I use Debian Etch and Sendmail.

Thanks a lot.

[HROAdmin26]

Google

S/../.././19 = short test every day at 19:00
C/../.././20 = conveyance test every day at 20:00
L/../../3/21 = long test every wednesday (3) at 21:00
-m root = root will be emailed if anything strange occurs