Hi all, My smart-notifier package turned a popcon 20 a little while back and still has no bugs, so I guess it's time for wider announcements.
What is smart-notifier? It is a small package that has and will always have only one purpose, to transmit S.M.A.R.T. warnings about impending hard drive problems from smartd to a user using a GUI. How does it work? When smart-notifier drops a script into /etc/smartd/run.d/, this script will send a dbus message to the system bus every time smartmontools sends an e-mail. The user runs a pre-user-session-daemon that connects to the system bus and pops up a window with the error. Why am I announcing it here? Well, one day a long time in the future I hope it, or something like it will be a part of the desktop. That will only be possible with wider use/testing. But if smartd sends e-mails, why do we need this? Some people, especially some desktop users, do not receive system mail or do not even have a mailserver installed. What is the future of smart-motifier? Apart from gradual improvement and tweaking, there is one major milestone on the horizon. When notification-daemon [1] grows the ability to transmit messages from the root to the user context, we will use that instead of the roll-it-at-home solution we have now. [1] http://packages.debian.org/unstable/x11/notification-daemon -- Brian Sutherland Metropolis - "it's the first movie with a robot. And she's a woman. And she's EVIL!!" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
