Updated (I forgot to remake this after modifying smartd.8)

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sm5/smartd.conf.5

 \# Copyright (C) 2002 Bruce Allen <smartmontools-support@lists.sourceforge.net>
 \# 
-\# $Id: smartd.conf.5,v 1.25 2003/02/06 11:58:30 ballen4705 Exp $
+\# $Id: smartd.conf.5,v 1.26 2003/02/06 17:55:29 ballen4705 Exp $
 \#
 \# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
 \# under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
 \# Research Center), Jack Baskin School of Engineering, University of
 \# California, Santa Cruz. http://ssrc.soe.ucsc.edu/
 \#
-.TH SMARTD.CONF 5  "$Date: 2003/02/06 11:58:30 $" "smartmontools-5.1"
+.TH SMARTD.CONF 5  "$Date: 2003/02/06 17:55:29 $" "smartmontools-5.1"
 .SH NAME
 smartd.conf \- S.M.A.R.T. Monitoring Daemon Configuration File
 
@@ -163,10 +163,10 @@ configuration file. Note that
 The Directives below may appear in any order, following the device
 name. 
 
-.B  For ATA disks, if
-.B no Directives appear, the disk will not be monitored.
-Conversely, the '\-a' Directive will try to monitor everything
-possible.
+.B For an ATA device,
+if no Directives appear, then the device will be monitored
+as if the
+'\-a' Directive (monitor all SMART properties) had been given.
 
 .B If a SCSI disk is listed,
 it will be monitored at the only implemented level: roughly equivalent
@@ -281,7 +281,7 @@ Send a warning email to the email address
 .B ADD
 if the '\-H', '\-l', or '\-f' Directives detect a failure or a new
 error.  This Directive only works in conjunction with these other
-Directives (or with the equivalent '\-a' Directive).
+Directives (or with the equivalent default '\-a' Directive).
 
 To prevent your email in-box from getting filled up with warning
 messages, by default only a single warning will be sent for each of
@@ -537,6 +537,10 @@ to track changes in both Prefailure and Usage Attributes,
 to report increases in the number of Self-Test Log errors, and
 .B '\-l\ error' 
 to report increases in the number of ATA errors.
+
+Note that \-a is the default for ATA devices.  If none of these other
+Directives is given, then \-a is assumed.
+
 .TP
 .B #
 Comment: ignore the remainder of the line.
@@ -586,17 +590,13 @@ email warning per device for any problems that are found.
 .nf
 .B  DEVICESCAN -d ata -m root@yoyodyne.com
 .fi
-will do the same, but restricts the scan to ATA devices only.  In this
-case (using
-.B DEVICESCAN
-to monitor ATA devices) unless one or more of the Directives
-.B \-H, \-f, \-t, \-l\ selftest,
-or
-.B \-l\ error
-is explicity listed, then
-.B \-a
-(which is equivalent to ALL of these Directives and monitors all the
-SMART properties of the devices) is assumed.
+will do the same, but restricts the scan to ATA devices only.  
+.nf
+.B  DEVICESCAN -H -d ata -m root@yoyodyne.com
+.fi
+will do the same, but only monitors the SMART health status of the
+devices, (rather than the default \-a, which monitors all SMART
+properties).
 
 .TP
 .B EXAMPLES OF SHELL SCRIPTS FOR '\-M exec'
@@ -684,4 +684,4 @@ SEE ALSO:
 
 .SH
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