Problem setting up S.M.A.R.T monitoring

[TheMayhem]

Hello,

I am trying to setup smart monitoring using smartd but it refuses to start.

I have installed smartmontools and I am able to run smartctl -i /dev/[device] for all my drives and see that they are smart enabled.

However, when I try to run service smartd start it fails:

# service smartd start
Starting smartd (via systemctl):  Job failed. See system logs and 'systemctl status' for details.
                                                                [FAILED]

/var/log/messages tell me:

Oct 16 00:02:10 holisrv2 systemd[1]: Failed to load environment files: No such file or directory
Oct 16 00:02:10 holisrv2 systemd[1]: smartd.service failed to run 'start' task: No such file or directory

What are these environment files it is looking for?


I have looked around a bit and I have /etc/smartd.conf with the following content:

# Sample configuration file for smartd.  See man smartd.conf.

DEVICESCAN -S on -o on -a -I 194 -m myname@myserver.com -s (S/../.././02|L/../../6/03)

I did for some reason not have /etc/defaults/smartmontools. I tried creating it manually but to no effect. It now contains:

# cat /etc/default/smartmontools 
# Defaults for smartmontools initscript (/etc/init.d/smartmontools)
# This is a POSIX shell fragment

# List of devices you want to explicitly enable S.M.A.R.T. for
# Not needed (and not recommended) if the device is monitored by smartd
#enable_smart="/dev/hda /dev/hdb"

# uncomment to start smartd on system startup
start_smartd=yes

# uncomment to pass additional options to smartd on startup
smartd_opts="--interval=1800"

Looking in /etc/init.d/smartd I find (among others) the following lines:

# Source function library
. /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions

# Source configuration file
[ -r /etc/sysconfig/smartd ] && . /etc/sysconfig/smartd

I have none of the files mentioned.

I appreciate any help I can get.

[Roxoff]

Thread moved at OP's request.

[vasile002]

Since you are running mandrivia I assume you are missing some smartd dependencies, I am not sure which one exactly however. My suggestion is for you to check if all dependencies are installed

[atreyu]

What distro are you running? Is it really mandriva? On my system, the required config file is:

/etc/sysconfig/smartmontools

and it contains:

smartd_opts="-q never"