systemd and smartmontools

Hi,

I am seeking help and advise on troubleshooting the starting of the smartd
daemon.  The /usr/sbin/smartd comes from the smartmontools version 6.3.

The /usr/lib/systemd/system/smartd.service file looks like this

# cat /usr/lib/systemd/system/smartd.service
[Unit]
Description=Self Monitoring and Reporting Technology (SMART) Daemon
Documentation=man:smartd(8) man:smartd.conf(5)
After=syslog.target

[Service]
Type=forking
PIDFile=/run/smartd.pid
ExecStartPre=/bin/rm -f /run/smartd.pid
EnvironmentFile=/etc/sysconfig/smartmontools
ExecStart=/usr/sbin/smartd $smartd_opts
ExecReload=/bin/kill -HUP $MAINPID
StandardOutput=syslog

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

When "systemctl start smartd.service" is called, the process forks into a
daemon.  The problem I'm seeing is that the forked process received a
SIGTERM signal and exited.  How do I resolve this so that the forked
process would not get terminated.

# systemctl status smartd.service
smartd.service - Self Monitoring and Reporting Technology (SMART) Daemon
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/smartd.service; enabled)
   Active: failed (Result: timeout) since Thu 2015-04-02 17:19:49 GMT; 4min
39s ago
     Docs: man:smartd(8)
           man:smartd.conf(5)
  Process: 7456 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/smartd $smartd_opts (code=exited,
status=0/SUCCESS)
  Process: 7454 ExecStartPre=/bin/rm -f /run/smartd.pid (code=exited,
status=0/SUCCESS)
 Main PID: 1075 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)

Apr 02 17:18:20 007 smartd[7456]: Device: /dev/bus/0 [megaraid_disk_19],
opened
Apr 02 17:18:20 007 smartd[7456]: Device: /dev/bus/0 [megaraid_disk_19],
[TOSHIBA  MG03SCA300       5702], lu ....00 TB
Apr 02 17:18:20 007 smartd[7456]: Device: /dev/bus/0 [megaraid_disk_19], is
SMART capable. Adding to "monitor" list.
Apr 02 17:18:20 007 smartd[7456]: Monitoring 0 ATA and 12 SCSI devices
Apr 02 17:18:21 007 systemd[1]: PID file /run/smartd.pid not readable
(yet?) after start.
Apr 02 17:18:21 007 smartd[7463]: smartd has fork()ed into background mode.
New PID=7463.
Apr 02 17:19:49 007 systemd[1]: smartd.service operation timed out.
Terminating.
Apr 02 17:19:49 007 smartd[7463]: smartd received signal 15: Terminated
Apr 02 17:19:49 007 systemd[1]: Failed to start Self Monitoring and
Reporting Technology (SMART) Daemon.
Apr 02 17:19:49 007 systemd[1]: Unit smartd.service entered failed state.
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Thanks,
-Al

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