Package: smartmontools Version: 6.5+svn4324-1 Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer, on my system, smartd starts on every boot, no matter what I put into "/etc/default/smartmontools", commenting the relevant parameter out: #start_smartd=yes or explicitly assigning a "no" value to it: start_smartd=no -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.15.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages smartmontools depends on: ii debianutils 4.8.4 ii init-system-helpers 1.51 ii libc6 2.27-3 ii libcap-ng0 0.7.9-1 ii libgcc1 1:8-20180425-1 ii libselinux1 2.7-2+b2 ii libstdc++6 8-20180425-1 ii lsb-base 9.20170808 Versions of packages smartmontools recommends: ii bsd-mailx [mailx] 8.1.2-0.20160123cvs-4 Versions of packages smartmontools suggests: ii gsmartcontrol 1.1.3-1 pn smart-notifier <none> -- Configuration Files: /etc/default/smartmontools changed: start_smartd=no -- no debconf information -- Best wishes, Bob
