Re: Using SMARTd to monitor drives

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From: "Carlos E. R." <[email protected]>
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Subject: Re: [smartmontools-support] Using SMARTd to monitor drives
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On 2017-02-04 16:15, Ray Andrews wrote:
> 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=20
> grep.  The entire subject of access to logs is another thing that has=20
> become very difficult to understand. Until now, I've been using=20
> "journalctl -p err -b -1", and not seeing very much :(

With the systemd journal you could do:

journalctl | grep -w smartd

with the same effect as the commands above. Internally, the journal is
binary, but you can inspect the text and work on it as always - albeit
more slowly.

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Cheers / Saludos,

		Carlos E. R.
		(from 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar)


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