[MacPorts] #25613: smartmontools 5.39.1 Logging does not function

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#25613: smartmontools 5.39.1 Logging does not function
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 Reporter:  scott@…                             |       Owner:  macports-tickets@…                   
     Type:  defect                              |      Status:  new                                  
 Priority:  Normal                              |   Milestone:                                       
Component:  ports                               |     Version:  1.9.1                                
 Keywords:  log, syslog, smartd, smartmontools  |        Port:  smartmontools                        
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 smartmontools is a package that contains `smartctl` and `smartd`, this
 report is in regards to `smartd` only.

 All documentation states that logging messages will be sent to 'SYSLOG'.
 The [http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/man/smartd.8.html smartd man
 page] specifically states:

 > -l FACILITY, --logfacility=FACILITY
 > Uses syslog facility FACILITY to log the messages from smartd. Here
 FACILITY is one of local0, local1, ..., local7, or daemon [default]. If
 this command-line option is not used, then by default messages from smartd
 are logged to the facility daemon.

 Further, emails generated for alert or testing state:

 > For details see host's SYSLOG (default: /var/log/messages).

 Nothing as far as I can tell is sent to /var/log/system.log.  I believe
 that would be the correct place for this.  If another location was
 determined to be in for example /opt/local/var/log/smartmontools.log then
 an entire syslog mechanism would have to be installed and configured along
 with it.

 According to the snip above, 'daemon' is the default, which Mac OS X does
 not have a logging channel for. What is the correct procedure to solve
 this?  Not everyone will use the mail feature of smartd to get an alert,
 and I think it is important to also have this logged to syslog.  Not
 everyone has `mail` functioning on their local systems.

 Ideally, no edits would need to be made to /etc/syslog.conf.  Is this
 simply a matter of altering the launcd item to add --logfacility=notice ?

 I spent a bit of time trying to figure out if this software was even
 working, to learn that my mta was off.  This would have been logged to
 syslog, which I was `tail -f`ing just as I -HUP'd `smartd`, but nothing
 showed up.  I browsed the source a little to see if I thought it was
 solvable there, or with a configure arg, but I don't believe that to be
 the case.

 This is not my area of expertise, but if someone can tell the correct
 approach to fixing it, I would like to give it a try.  I would also like
 to try to add in a +growl variant for instant alerts on screen which has
 it's own mail feature as well.

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Ticket URL: <http://trac.macports.org/ticket/25613>
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