SMART-NOTIFIER(1)

📦 version 0.28, in debian bookworm, debian trixie, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💖 SMART-NOTIFIER(1) 💖

okay bestie, so this is a page from the General Commands Manual, and it's literally all about smart-notifier — the little dbus baddie that watches your disks' health and yells at you (nicely) when something's up. let's get into it 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

smart-notifier — dbus service and graphical disk health notifier

like, it's a dbus service AND a graphical notifier for your disk health. iconic combo ngl.

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

smart-notifier [options]

that's it. that's the whole vibe. just run it, optionally with some options. periodt.

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so this manual page is a quick lil rundown of smart-notifier, nothing too deep, just the essentials 💅

here's the tea: smart-notifier is a dbus service/client pair. like a duo. a dynamic. main character energy in two parts.

if you run it with no options at all, it starts up a dbus service and just... listens 👂✨ it's waiting for messages sent by the client — and that client is normally started from a script in /etc/smartd/run.d. so like, a script kicks off the client, the client sends a message, and then—

those messages get displayed on the screen of the user who's running the service 🖥️💖 so whatever your disks are going through, you'll see it.

heads up bestie: this program is designed to be run inside a user's graphical desktop session. so like, in your actual desktop, not in some headless void. she needs a screen to slay on 💅

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • --notify — run as a dbus client. the message text gets read from stdin 📥 (so yeah, pipe stuff into it, she'll take it from there)

👑 AUTHOR 👑

smart-notifier was written by Brian Sutherland <jinty@web.de> — tysm for your service, king 🫡

this manual page was also written by Brian Sutherland <jinty@web.de>, for the Debian project (but like, it may be used by others too, no gatekeeping here 🌈).

okay so that's the whole page!! short, sweet, disk-health-coded 💀✨

smart-notifier(1) — page from Dec 25, 2005, part of the General Commands Manual, source/version <rainbow>SMART-NOTIFIER(1)</rainbow> 🎀 mwah, go keep those disks healthy bestie 💖🌸🦋

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