On Fri, Mar 05, 2021 at 05:12:34PM +0100, Tomasz Torcz wrote:
> > This is another one for which it is questionable to have it
running, or is this a machine with
> > ECC RAM ? And even then I'm not sure if it adds a lot of value, or if just
like smartd it
> > just logs some stuff into syslog (where normal users won't see it).
>
> I disagree that those logs are useless -- I often help normal users, and
> running commands to look back in the logs for problems is a common
> diagnostic step. This could be better, of course.
They are useful. smartd even sends emails – that's how I was informed
about one of my disks dying, few weeks ago,
It can, but most people don't have a good setup for even local mail
delivery. Out of the box, we don't really do anything useful. It'd be nice
for our desktop offerings to have some kind of way of showing these
messages in a helpful way.
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Matthew Miller
<mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org>
Fedora Project Leader