This would be a sweet addition to Mandrake's base install: http://sourceforge.net/projects/smartsuite/
to compile on Mandrake, download the src.rpm and rpm -ivh it. Then edit the /usr/src/RPM/SPEC/smartsuite-2.1.spec file, go to the bottom and replace: /usr/man/man8/smartctl.8.gz /usr/man/man8/smartd.8.gz with /usr/man/man8/smartctl.8.bz2 /usr/man/man8/smartd.8.bz2 Now rpm -bb /usr/src/RPM/SPEC/smartsuite-2.1.spec and rpm -ivh the generated RPM. Next edit /etc/init.d/smartd and insert something like: # chkconfig: 2345 05 97 in the comments at the top & run chkconfig smartd on, then service smartd start. This will dump any SMART errors into the syslog as they happen. You can also get extended info on the fly and run some intensive tests with smartctl, but that data looks tough to interpret. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture...
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