Re: [gentoo-user] smartd and ssmtp not sending emails again.

[Dale]

Raffaele BELARDI wrote:
> Dale wrote:
>> I went through this before and I haven't changed anything so not sure
>> why it isn't working now.  I decided to test smartd to make sure that it
>> would send me a email if a drive developed a problem.  I added -M test
>> to the line, restarted smartd and got nothing.  I mean nothing but
>> crickets.  Going to post relevant info that I know of.  Here we go:
> (snip)
>
>> When I check my email, I do get the test message.  It seems to me that
>> ssmtp is working but that smartd either isn't working or it is not
>> getting to ssmtp somehow.
>>
>> Anyone see a reason this shouldn't be working?  I'd really like a heads
>> up if a drive is having "issues".
>>
> Any hints from the syslog? Here -M test seems to work fine.
>
> raffaele


Sorry.  I forgot to include that.  This is from when I restart smartd.



Aug  4 04:46:45 fireball smartd[3610]: smartd received signal 15: Terminated
Aug  4 04:46:45 fireball smartd[3610]: smartd is exiting (exit status 0)
Aug  4 04:46:45 fireball smartd[7526]: smartd 6.4 2015-06-04 r4109
[x86_64-linux-3.18.7-gentoo] (local build)
Aug  4 04:46:45 fireball smartd[7526]: Copyright (C) 2002-15, Bruce
Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org
Aug  4 04:46:45 fireball smartd[7526]: Opened configuration file
/etc/smartd.conf
Aug  4 04:46:45 fireball smartd[7526]: Drive: DEVICESCAN, implied '-a'
Directive on line 27 of file /etc/smartd.conf
Aug  4 04:46:45 fireball smartd[7526]: Configuration file
/etc/smartd.conf was parsed, found DEVICESCAN, scanning devices
Aug  4 04:46:45 fireball smartd[7526]: Device: /dev/sda, type changed
from 'scsi' to 'sat'
Aug  4 04:46:45 fireball smartd[7526]: Device: /dev/sda [SAT], opened
Aug  4 04:46:45 fireball smartd[7526]: Device: /dev/sda [SAT], WDC
WD1600AAJS-00YZCA0, S/N:WD-WCAYU4389620, WWN:5-0014ee-1ad79c1b3,
FW:01.03B01, 160 GB
Aug  4 04:46:45 fireball smartd[7526]: Device: /dev/sda [SAT], found in
smartd database: Western Digital Caviar Blue Serial ATA
Aug  4 04:46:46 fireball smartd[7526]: Device: /dev/sda [SAT], is SMART
capable. Adding to "monitor" list.
Aug  4 04:46:46 fireball smartd[7526]: Device: /dev/sdb, type changed
from 'scsi' to 'sat'
Aug  4 04:46:46 fireball smartd[7526]: Device: /dev/sdb [SAT], opened
Aug  4 04:46:46 fireball smartd[7526]: Device: /dev/sdb [SAT], SAMSUNG
HD753LJ, S/N:S1PWJ1KS305193, WWN:5-0024e9-001308c31, FW:1AA01117, 750 GB
Aug  4 04:46:46 fireball smartd[7526]: Device: /dev/sdb [SAT], found in
smartd database: SAMSUNG SpinPoint F1 DT
Aug  4 04:46:46 fireball smartd[7526]: Device: /dev/sdb [SAT], is SMART
capable. Adding to "monitor" list.
Aug  4 04:46:46 fireball smartd[7526]: Device: /dev/sdc, type changed
from 'scsi' to 'sat'
Aug  4 04:46:46 fireball smartd[7526]: Device: /dev/sdc [SAT], opened
Aug  4 04:46:46 fireball smartd[7526]: Device: /dev/sdc [SAT],
ST3000DM001-1CH166, S/N:W1F4C31Q, WWN:5-000c50-06e7a0a7c, FW:CC29, 3.00 TB
Aug  4 04:46:46 fireball smartd[7526]: Device: /dev/sdc [SAT], found in
smartd database: Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 (AF)
Aug  4 04:46:46 fireball smartd[7526]: Device: /dev/sdc [SAT], is SMART
capable. Adding to "monitor" list.
Aug  4 04:46:46 fireball smartd[7526]: Monitoring 3 ATA and 0 SCSI devices
Aug  4 04:46:46 fireball smartd[7528]: smartd has fork()ed into
background mode. New PID=7528.
Aug  4 04:46:46 fireball smartd[7528]: file /run/smartd.pid written
containing PID 7528
root@fireball / #


It seems to start and begin monitoring but I don't see anything about it
even trying to email anything. 

Thanks.

Dale

:-)  :-)