smartd automated scanning failing

[Ubence Quevedo]

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.

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?

I think this might not have been working since Mavericks.  It used to work
perfectly in Lion and Mountain Lion.

I'm running the latest version of smartmontools that MacPorts has available
[6.2].

Has anyone else run into this error...?

-Ubence
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