Package: smartmontools Version: 6.5+svn4324-1 Severity: important
Hi. I've stumbled over the following issues in smartd: At first I had bascally the following smartd.conf: DEVICESCAN -d auto -d removable -n standby,4 -a -m root,mylocaluser,m...@email.com -M exec /usr/share/smartmontools/smartd-runner In order to test it, I've added -M test. Now on restart, only root got mail, and the postfix logs didn't even show any tries for mylocaluser and m...@email.com. I've added -M once, as I assumed the support for comma-separated multiple addresses as explained in the smartd.conf manpage for -m, may just not work with -M-exec-invoked /etc/smartmontools/run.d/10mail but only with -M once, -M daily or -M diminishing (and that this might be some other mail sender than /etc/smartmontools/run.d/10mail - which it actually seems to be). Interestingly, it still didn't work. Only if I removed -M exec... I got mail sent to all three recipients. So I think there are two issues here: 1) /etc/smartmontools/run.d/10mail, which seems to be used per default by debian (as there is no -M once or so) should support multiple addresses in -m. It's likely not obvious to the user that there are two methods of sending warning mails, and it should just work as one would naively assume by reading the documentation of -m. 2) In contrast to what the manpage claims, it seems that if -M exec is in place, -M once/etc. are not executed as well. IMO both are severity=important, as they may prevent information about failing drives being passed on. Cheers, Chris.
