On Dec 6, 2014, at 1:42 AM, Ubence Quevedo <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> What happens if you run smartd manually in debug mode and without forking: >> sudo port unload smartmontools >> sudo /opt/local/sbin/smartd -n -d -c /opt/local/etc/smartd.conf >> >> When I ran manually without sudo smartd complained about not being able to >> write a state file to: >> /opt/local/var/lib/smartmontools/smartd.Hitachi_HDS722020ALA330-JK1174YAK4MZ3W.ata.state >> > > When I ran the smartd like you did from the command line like the above, it > seems to work properly: > > Ubences-Intel-iMac:etc uquevedo$ sudo /opt/local/sbin/smartd -n -d -c > /opt/local/etc/smartd.conf > smartd 6.2 2013-07-26 r3841 [x86_64-apple-darwin14.0.0] (local build) ...... > There is an entry on the Mac Ports Trac site for an upgrade to 6.3 here: > https://trac.macports.org/ticket/45982 > > I’m going to try compiling smartmontools from source and give that a try to > see if I still run into the same issue and hope that the 6.3 update whenever > it is released from Mac Ports will fix this problem. > > I’ll also likely post a bug report since there doesn’t seem to be one for > this already. I noticed smartd has a -n no-fork flag. I'm testing with this modified launchd script: <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"; > <plist version='1.0'> <dict> <key>Label</key><string>org.macports.smartd</string> <key>ProgramArguments</key> <array> <string>/opt/local/sbin/smartd</string> <string>-n</string> <string>-c</string> <string>/opt/local/etc/smartd.conf</string> </array> <key>KeepAlive</key><true/> </dict> </plist> Regards, Bradley Giesbrecht (pixilla)
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