On Fri, Mar 05, 2021 at 11:35:37AM -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:
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.
Once we reach the noble goal of having 0 warnings during boot by default,
we could just issue a notification whenever anything pops up. We do that
for kernel oops already.
Zbyszek