Hi there! I am new to this forum and don't know much about Linux, so please be kind. I tried the search function, but either I didn't know what exactly to search for or there are no topics to help me. Anyway... I've recently bought a NAS (Conceptronic CH3SNAS), that runs a minimalistic Linux by default. With a special script (fun_plug), it can be turned from a black box into a white box, allowing Telnet/SSH access, the installation of packages etc. This works pretty fine, except for one thing I simply couldn't accomplish: I want to start smartd on boot (which I guess should be fairly easy, I know how to theoretically do that) and send smartd reports via email. This way I could monitor my HDD health without having to log on all the time. I do not know what Linux is running on the box, I think there's something called Busybox but I'm not sure whether that is a distribution. I installed all available packages (I think they're listed here: http://www.inreto.de/dns323/fun-plug/0.5/PACKAGES.html), including mailx and esmtp. In /ffp/bin (/ffp is the main directory of the fun_plug installation) there is a file "sendmail" too. I read all the documentations and man pages, but that stuff is far too advanced for me. :-( All I want to do is to set up smartd to send me mail reports about special occurrences. While I think I can handle the smartd.conf syntax, esmtp seems out of reach. This essentially is what I have in smartd.conf: Code: /dev/sda -d marvell -m [email protected] -M exec /ffp/bin/esmtp -M test /dev/sdb -d marvell -m [email protected] -M exec /ffp/bin/esmtp -M test When running smartd, this is what I get (the interesting part at least): My esmtprc looks like this: Code: hostname = post.strato.de:25 username = "[email protected]" password = "myPass" force sender = "NAS Admin" mda "/ffp/bin/procmail -d %T" procmail in /ffp/etc looks like this: Code: # Please check if all the paths in PATH are reachable, # remove the ones that are not. PATH=$HOME/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:. MAILDIR=/ffp/mail # You'd better make sure it exists DEFAULT=$MAILDIR/mbox LOGFILE=$MAILDIR/from LOCKFILE=$HOME/.lockmail I guess I'm doing a lot of things wrong here, as I don't really know what I am doing at all. Can anyone help me fix this mess? If you need any further info, please tell me. If I could finish smartd config, I'd be ready to use the CH3SNAS productively. Greetings Ben
Sending mail under NAS/ffp Ben/nurunet: your questions are very interesting and relevant. I have many of the same questions. Have you received anwers to your questions (or discovered them by yourself), and can you post them? TIA MaryG
Hey Mary, I am very sorry - I have to disappoint you. I never solved the problem and just stuck to checking the SMART status manually from time to time. :-( All the best, Ben
