smartd automated scanning failing

[Ubence Quevedo]

> On Dec 4, 2014, at 3:48 PM, Bradley Giesbrecht <pixilla at macports.org> wrote:
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> On Nov 27, 2014, at 7:04 AM, Ubence Quevedo <thatrat at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Hi All,
>> 
>> I'm not sure that this is the right place to post this, but it seems that smartmontools that I have installed through port isn't scanning drive when I have the appropriate configuration file at /opt/local/etc/smartd.conf configured.
>> 
>> Here's the relevant line to run a short scan at 5AM every morning and then a long scan at 6AM:
>> /dev/disk0 -H -l error -l selftest -f -s (S/../.././05|L/../.././06) -m xxxxxxx at xxxxx.xxx
>> 
>> I took a look at the console, and saw the following lines when the scanning was supposed to occur:
>> Nov 25 05:22:24 Ubences-Intel-iMac.local smartd[152]: Authorization, server not available
>> Nov 25 05:22:24 Ubences-Intel-iMac.local smartd[152]: Device: /dev/disk0, execute Short Self-Test failed.
>> Nov 25 06:22:25 Ubences-Intel-iMac.local smartd[152]: Device: /dev/disk0, execute Long Self-Test failed.
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>> What stands out to me is the first line "Authorization, server not available".
>> 
>> I've tried looking for info on this particular output, but I can't find anything to trace back to how this is occurring?
> 
> Are your users local or in opendirectory/activedirectory/ldap?
> 

Local user account.

> Regards,
> Bradley Giesbrecht (pixilla)
> 

-Ubence