Re: '#start_smartd=yes' in /etc/default/smartmontools is ignored

Nick Rose wrote:
> I use smartctl to manually check external hard drives occasionally. I 
> don't need or want the smartd service to be running at all.
>
> In the file /etc/default/smartmontools it says to start smartd 
> automatically, uncomment the line 'start_smartd=yes'. It is already 
> commented out, which is what I want, so it shouldn't start 
> automatically but it still does.
>
> I'm not sure whether this is a bug, or a quirk of the operating system 
> I'm using (Xubuntu 15.10). I do know that smartd didn't start 
> automatically in Xubuntu 14.04.

Please note that /etc/default/smartmontools and its evaluation in the 
/etc/init.d/smartmontools is specific to the Ubuntu (and Debian) 
packages. It is not part of upstream smartmontools code.

The settings in this file may no longer be effective for distributions 
using systemd.

If this is the case, try this as root:

    systemctl disable smartd

If this does not help, report a bug to package maintainers:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/smartmontools

Thanks,
Christian


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