Package: smartmontools Version: 5.38-3 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch
Here is a patch to add support for the "status" action to the init.d script.
diff -u smartmontools-5.38/debian/control smartmontools-5.38/debian/control --- smartmontools-5.38/debian/control +++ smartmontools-5.38/debian/control @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ Package: smartmontools Architecture: any Conflicts: smartsuite, ucsc-smartsuite -Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends}, debianutils (>= 2.2), lsb-base (>= 3.0-10) +Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends}, debianutils (>= 2.2), lsb-base (>= 3.2-13) Recommends: mailx | mailutils Description: control and monitor storage systems using S.M.A.R.T. The smartmontools package contains two utility programs (smartctl and smartd) diff -u smartmontools-5.38/debian/smartmontools.init smartmontools-5.38/debian/smartmontools.init --- smartmontools-5.38/debian/smartmontools.init +++ smartmontools-5.38/debian/smartmontools.init @@ -125,8 +125,11 @@ fi fi ;; + status) + status_of_proc -p "$PIDFILE" "$DAEMON" "smartd" && exit 0 || exit $? + ;; *) - echo "Usage: /etc/init.d/smartmontools {start|stop|restart|reload|force-reload}" + echo "Usage: /etc/init.d/smartmontools {start|stop|restart|reload|force-reload|status}" exit 1 esac