smartmontools for Debian ------------------------ Disabling the service --------------------- By default smartmontools service is starting automatically. To disable the service on Systemd: sudo systemctl disable smartmontools.service on SysV: sudo update-rc.d smartmontools disable update-smart-drivedb -------------------- There were number of tickets discussing removal of "update-smart-drivedb" utility (#894534, #824795, #804299, #85404). Maintainer's position is to provide this utility. If admin (i.e. root) decides to service they system then they can download drivedb manually using browser or a download utility. Upstream provides "update-smart-drivedb" as a _glove_ to protect admin from mistakes and since 7.0 script uses GPG to ensure integrity of the downloaded database. Maintainer assumes that admins understand risks of using "update-smart-drivedb" utility and that updating drivedb is better to be done with this utility rather than without it. Maintainer advises to update drivedb _only when necessary_. Notes ----- Don't use enable_smart for any disk monitored by smartd, this is likely to cause problems, especially for SATA (see e.g. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=365027). Package Maintainers and system administrators can put scripts to be run when smartd detects an error into /etc/smartmontools/run.d. These scripts will be run by smartd-runner using run-parts(8). The script will receive the filename of the file containing the errormessage as first parameter. See /etc/smartmontools/run.d/10mail for an example. Upstream recommends running short self tests every day and long self tests once per week. Please read http://www.smartmontools.org/wiki/Warnings -- Guido Guenther , Wen, 03 May 2006 21:47:00 +0000