[Software] Daily Email Report from smartd

[labzilla]

I wan to receive daily email reports of my HDD. I've add

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/dev/sda -a -d sat -o on -S on -s (S/../.././02) -m user@xxxx.com -M exec /usr/share/smartmontools/smartd-runner

to /etc/smartd.conf I have this on an Ubuntu server that sends a detailed report on Sunday, and a short report on Monday-Saturday.
I have smartmontools service running. What am I missing?

[arzgi]

Ubuntu server

Better ask from Ubuntu forums.

[labzilla]

I am trying to replicate the configuration from my Ubuntu server to my Debian 12 server.

[fabien]

Hello, welcome to the forums!

Have you tested if smartd sends emails correctly?

To test that email is being sent correctly, use the '-M test' Directive described below to send one test email message on smartd startup.
[...]
-M TYPE
[...]
test - send a single test email immediately upon smartd startup. This allows one to verify that email is delivered correctly.

[labzilla]

Yes, I did receive an Email message

[fabien]

Where did you place your line in /etc/smartd.conf? I ask because in the header of this file you can read

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# The word DEVICESCAN will cause any remaining lines in this
# configuration file to be ignored: it tells smartd to scan for all
# ATA and SCSI devices.  DEVICESCAN may be followed by any of the
# Directives listed below, which will be applied to all devices that
# are found.  Most users should comment out DEVICESCAN and explicitly
# list the devices that they wish to monitor.
DEVICESCAN -d removable -n standby -m root -M exec /usr/share/smartmontools/smartd-runner

[labzilla]

I'm placing all my customization at the last line of /etc/smartd.conf. I tested with DEVICESCAN and then removed that line.
All other lines of /etc/smartd.conf have been commented out.
Looking at /var/log/syslog I don't see any error.

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2024-03-12T02:08:50.771309-04:00 debian smartd[107569]: Device: /dev/sda [SAT], starting scheduled Short Self-Test.
2024-03-12T02:38:50.938507-04:00 debian smartd[107569]: Device: /dev/sda [SAT], previous self-test completed without error

It's running the scheduled short test, I just don't receive a Email report.