New DiskMonitoring package

[Brian Sutherland]

On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 11:11:54PM +0200, Brian Sutherland wrote:
> I just finished putting together a prototype package for a Disk Health
> Notifier (package diskhealthnotifier - new name suggestions?). But I am
> missing an appropriate piece of web real estate to show it off from. Can
> anyone help out?
> 
> This package requires a modified smartmontools package and tries to show
> smartd warnings graphically to the user (iff s/he is logged in).

Thanks to help from Pakistan Open Source, a smart-notifier and modified
smartmonools packages are available from

http://www.pakistanopensource.org/projects/smart-notifier

or 

deb http://www.pakistanopensource.org/projects/smart-notifier/smart-notifier-0.21/ ./
deb-src http://www.pakistanopensource.org/projects/smart-notifier/smart-notifier-0.21/ ./

Some quick instructions for trying this out (after installing the
packages):

*   add /usr/bin/smart-notifier to your gnome session (Perhaps should 
    be done automatically on package installation).
*   start the smartd daemon by default (if you like)
*   add "-M test" to the options after DEVICESCAN to send a test warning
    on every smartd startup/shutdown. Testing can be done by restarting
    the smartd daemon (make sure you have /usr/bin/smartd-notifier
    running). A window should pop-up on the screen showing the message.

What do you think?

P.S. It would be very comforting if the resident ubuntu dbus person
    (expert;) could have a look at the dbus config file in the package.

-- 
Brian Sutherland

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