Re: Using SMARTd to monitor drives

On 04/02/17 03:24 AM, Christian Franke wrote:
> Ray Andrews wrote:
>> On 31/01/17 01:21 AM, Christian Franke wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> Your question suggests that you never checked the SYSLOG output of
>> smartd. Please do this first before asking further questions here.
>>
>> On Debian, try:
>>     grep -w smartd /var/log/daemon.log
>> or for older logs:
>>     zgrep -w smartd /var/log/daemon.log.*
>>
That is very useful thanks.  Honestly I thought you could only examine 
syslog under systemd using the official tools like 'journalctl' , they 
are always saying that it's binary now.  I had no idea you could just 
grep.  The entire subject of access to logs is another thing that has 
become very difficult to understand. Until now, I've been using 
"journalctl -p err -b -1", and not seeing very much :(
>
>> Yes, BUT, I want to see if the count ever increases.  That is, I don't
>> want to see '77' over and over again, but I do want to see if it goes to 78.
> This is exactly the effect of the example from the mentioned mail.
I didn't realize that.  The docs seem to say it kills the entire test.  
As I replied last night, all of this is obvious to you, but not to 
others.  But sorry to test your patience.


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