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Re: smartmontools: monitoring S.M.A.R.T. disks and devices
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 10:04:12 +0100
- Subject: Re: smartmontools: monitoring S.M.A.R.T. disks and devices
- References: <4376096B.9030006@t-online.de>
- Reply-to: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
On Nov 12 16:25, Christian Franke wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to contribute and maintain the smartmontools package
> (http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/).
>
> With the (re?)appearance of syslogd, the "smartd" daemon starts to get
> useful on Cygwin.
> I recently added support to run smartd as service via cygrunsrv,
> including the ability to install/remove/control service via
> "/etc/rc.d/init.d/smartd"
>
> # proposed setup.hint for smartmontools
> sdesc: "Utilities for monitoring S.M.A.R.T. disks and devices"
> ldesc: "Smartmontools contains utility programs (smartctl, smartd)
> to control/monitor storage systems using the Self-Monitoring, Analysis
> and Reporting Technology System (S.M.A.R.T.) built into most modern
> ATA and SCSI disks. In many cases, these utilities will provide
> advanced warning of disk degradation and failure.
> Project home page is at http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/"
> curr: 5.34-0-20051107
> category: Utils
> requires: cygwin cygrunsrv
>
> If there is any interest, I will provide test packages build from
> current CVS soon.
Just go ahead and ITP the package. If you wait for a reply to this
question, you might starve.
Corinna
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