On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 01:33:00PM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Mon, Sep 25, 2006 at 09:02:55PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > Hello list members, > [..] > > This brings me to my question. Does anyone know of a way to get the > > system to notify me of any changes to the DMA status of the drives? On > > looking back in the syslog, I see this entry: > > > > Sep 24 17:38:16 miami vmunix: hdd: DMA disabled > > > > However, I am wondering if anyone knows of something to monitor for > > those sorts of changes and notify the user. Something like a console > > warning for programs that try to access the device, or a pop up window > > if the user is logged in to an X session. I can probably code something > > up, but I also don't want to reinvent the wheel. > > Would "logcheck" do what you want? >
Funny that you mention that. I already use logcheck on all of my machines. However, when there is lots of noise in the log file, I tend to miss something like that since it is only one line. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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