On Fri, Mar 05, 2021 at 11:35:37AM -0500, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Fri, Mar 05, 2021 at 05:12:34PM +0100, Tomasz Torcz wrote: > > > > This is another one for which it is questionable to have it running, or > > > > is this a machine with > > > > ECC RAM ? And even then I'm not sure if it adds a lot of value, or if > > > > just like smartd it > > > > just logs some stuff into syslog (where normal users won't see it). > > > > > > I disagree that those logs are useless -- I often help normal users, and > > > running commands to look back in the logs for problems is a common > > > diagnostic step. This could be better, of course. > > > > They are useful. smartd even sends emails – that's how I was informed > > about one of my disks dying, few weeks ago, > > It can, but most people don't have a good setup for even local mail > delivery. Out of the box, we don't really do anything useful. It'd be nice > for our desktop offerings to have some kind of way of showing these > messages in a helpful way.
Once we reach the noble goal of having 0 warnings during boot by default, we could just issue a notification whenever anything pops up. We do that for kernel oops already. Zbyszek _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
