[smartmontools-support] Avoid email every day for non-changing state

[Marcin Mirosław]

W dniu 2023-09-13 08:42, Petter Reinholdtsen napisał(a):
> I use the Debian edition of smartmontool on several machines, and two 
> of
> these send an email like this every night, while one of them also send 
> a
> message with "Device: /dev/sda [SAT], 16 Offline uncorrectable sectors"
> every night.  The end result is that I get repeated messages about what
> seem to me like an ignorable "issue", which is not getting worse.
> 
> -------------------- Start of forwarded message --------------------
> To: pere at hungry.com
> Subject: SMART error (CurrentPendingSector) detected on host: laptop
> Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2023 05:03:13 +0200
> From: root <root at laptop.local>
> 
> This message was generated by the smartd daemon running on:
> 
>    host name:  laptop
>    DNS domain: [Empty]
> 
> The following warning/error was logged by the smartd daemon:
> 
> Device: /dev/sda [SAT], 16 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors
> 
> Device info:
> ST500LT012-9WS142, S/N:S0V487C2, WWN:5-000c50-060d4a051, FW:0001SDM1, 
> 500 GB
> 
> For details see host's SYSLOG.
> 
> You can also use the smartctl utility for further investigation.
> The original message about this issue was sent at Sat Oct 30 10:48:33 
> 2021 CEST
> Another message will be sent in 24 hours if the problem persists.
> -------------------- End of forwarded message --------------------
> 
> Would it be possible to change smartd to only report _new_ or changed
> issues, for example only when the number of unreadable sectors change?
> As it is now, the emails are just noise and I am considering
> uninstalling the monitor on the machines in question.


Hi,
please read about option "-p" in `man smartd.conf`.