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Install an enhanced SMART monitoring package
I wrote a simple package to install smartmontool precompiled binaries into your /usr/local/bin folder; you can download it from:
http://geppo1982.altervista.org/smartmontools_5.36.dmg.tgz(copy and paste this link into your browser address bar, do not direct click on it). If you do not have a /usr/local/bin folder you can create it entering the following command into Terminal:
To launch smartd open ScriptEditor and paste the following code:
Then substitute youremailaddress with your real e-mail address (smartd will send you and e-mail when it will detect a new error on your disk) and save the script as "application".
If you want to launch smartd at startup add the application you created to your Login Items.
Install an enhanced SMART monitoring package
Thanks for the binary. Running smartd from the command line now works.
Install an enhanced SMART monitoring package
Download the applescript application here:
http://geppo1982.altervista.org/Launch_smartd.tgzThen open it with Script Editor, replace youremailaddress with your real e-mail address and save. I hope it will work.
Install an enhanced SMART monitoring package
Thanks, it works fine now.
Install an enhanced SMART monitoring package
great progress is making this usable.
Install an enhanced SMART monitoring package
I don't now how smartd sends e-mail but you can check if this feature works on your system by entering the following command in Terminal and then checking your mailbox.
Remember to change youremailaddress with your real e-mail address.
Install an enhanced SMART monitoring package
I get the following message when I try this:
Install an enhanced SMART monitoring package
On my PowerBook with a fresh Tiger (10.4.6) intallation this command works well. What's your OS version?
Install an enhanced SMART monitoring package
Tiger 10.4.6 as well (with all sharing services turned off, if that should matter, just guessing what the reference to the dropbox might mean).
It works!
I must have miss-typed something before. When I tried it again, I got the test e-mail. Thanks to the great powers of Unix and to you for your help.
Install an enhanced SMART monitoring package
But, you really don't want it as a login item, do you?
Install an enhanced SMART monitoring package
I finally got this working as a proper system startup item in /Library/StartupItems. |
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