Re: Cannot find error reported from smartd

Thank you, Christian, for helping me to understand that I have to look 
for the warnings in syslog, not smart.log. Indeed, the message in syslog 
is related to the attempt to open the external HDD which was offline at 
that moment.
Regards
Bernd

> -------- Original Nachricht/Message ---------
> Betreff/Subject: *Re: Cannot find error reported from smartd*
> Datum/Date: *Sonntag, 13. Juli 2014 15:53:48*
>
>
> bege wrote:
>> Hi,
>> after having installed this release
>> > Please test r3922 release from here:
>> > http://smartmontools.no-ip.org/
>> the error with health overall check has vanished, but now I receive 
>> error messages from smartd I cannot find the reason for.
>> The message came when the external HDD (sdb) was offline. So the 
>> message must be for the internal HDD (sda).
>
> If the external HDD was online during smartd startup, smartd would 
> issue a warning ("Device: /dev/sdX, unable to open device") when the 
> drive can no longer be accessed.
>
>> Attached are the smartd.config and the the part of smart.log with the 
>> release named above. Smartd shall only show new SMART errors.
>
> The attachment does not contain any of the warnings provided by 
> smartd. This is a drawback of the "erroraction.cmd" script you use for 
> -M exec. It logs smartctl results for all devices. It does not include 
> any warning info provided by smartd via environment variables 
> (SMARTD_DEVICESTRING, SMARTD_MESSAGE, ...).
>
> You might want to inform the author of "erroraction.cmd" 
> (http://www.netpower.fr/smartmontools). Note that this is an 
> independent project.
>
> Please examine the syslog messages from smartd to find the actual 
> warning and device info. Smartd issues log entries to the windows 
> event log unless -l command line option is used.
>
> Thanks,
> Christian

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