Hi Everyone,
I have not commented so far, since the issues seem to concern the
Debian-specific scripts that the Debian developers have written to wrap
around smartmontools. But I do have one comment...
On 9/15/09 1:40 PM, Francesco Potorti` wrote:
1) smartd problem: if a 'mail' program is not found, smartd does not
signal any error with the above DEVICESCAN line
This is not a bug, it is intentional:
# Send mail if /usr/bin/mail exists or exit silently
[ -x /usr/bin/mail ] || exit 0
I think this is a bug. If I explicitely ask for a mail, the program
should give an error telling me that this is not possible, rather than
failing silently.
I agree with this criticism. If the user has included a '-M' option and
/usr/bin/mail does NOT exist, the script should NOT exit silently; it
should generate visible error messages explaining what is wrong.
Cheers,
Bruce
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