Hi everyone! I have smartd running on my jessie server, to keep an eye on my raid disks.
One of them has a few pending sectors, but nothing major and I don't want to replace it yet. Problem is, every 30 min the following message gets dumped all over my open terminals (ssh as well as local, basically every root tty): 2017 May 9 16:01:52 [hostname] Device: /dev/sdf [SAT], 7 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors If I stop smartd.service, everything is fine. My /etc/smartd.conf contains (barring comments) just one line: DEVICESCAN -o on -H -l error -l selftest -p -s (L/../../6/03) -m [myemail] -M exec /usr/share/doc/smartmontools/examples/Example1 (I modified the example script to make sendmail work, that's executed far less often than every 30 min) Basically, it does what I want, I just want the extremely annoying terminal messages to stop... What I tried (to no avail): * change smartd.service to suppress StdOut and StdErr (instead of StandardOutput=syslog, I want it to just go to the journal, but even setting StandardOutput (and Error) to none doesn't help) * in /etc/systemd/user.conf, under [manager] change #LogTarget=console to LogTarget=none (or journal) * in /etc/systemd/journald.conf, change #ForwardToConsole=yes to ForwardToConsole=no followed by systemctl daemon-reload (and restarting smartd of course) * I have syslog-ng installed, changing a lot of settings there, disabling it, etc. until I changed the systemd unit to not use syslog for smartd at all and of course: * googling for hours, reading everything that seemed the least bit related, resisting the urge to bang my head against the wall Any ideas and hints much appreciated! Best, Julian
