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Barnwell CountyBarnwell County was originally part of Orangeburg District, and in 1785 it was named Winton County. It was given its current name in 1800 when it was named for John Barnwell (1748-1800), a Revolutionary War Leader. Barnwell County has decreased in size over the years as new counties were created within its boundaries (Aiken in 1871, Bamberg in 1897 and Allendale in 1919). The South Carolina Railroad, which connected Charleston to Hamburg on the Savannah River, was built through this area, creating the towns of Blackville and Williston in the mid-nineteenth century.
Early settlers to Orangeburg District: Robert McCampbell, Gabriel Moffitt, W. H. Lacy, Nathaniel Perry, and others.
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Yes, why not sleep apart? Why connect sex and sleeping at all? I think a lot of married couples have a bad sex life because they assume that sex is the last thing to do before falling asleep.
Here's nice tidbit:
Married couple Helena Bonham Carter and Tim Burton live in separate homes in London, linked by a single corridor.That's a pretty cool arrangement.
Or maybe something like the Beatles' house:

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- AnonymousSeptember 23, 2008 at 8:44 AM
Mary, what a gorgeous blog you have!! It is so informative and such beautiful photos!ReplyDelete
Thanks for posting this recipe from Anna! It looks delish! I was so happy to finally get a re-printed copy of "Country Weekend Entertaining" and can now stop going into every second hand bookstore in New England trying to find an original!
Happy to see you again!
Thank you so much Joan! It's great to meet up again & delightful to see you here.ReplyDelete
I'm so happy you found a copy of "CWE", it has become so rare that prices have been commanding over $150. on the secondary market. (I know because I was recently shopping for a copy as a surprise for a friend.) Ouch.
There is a rumor that it may be released again in the future, in paperback form. (Fingers crossed.) It's my favorite of Anna's books.
I haven't been disappointed in any that I've made from "Summer on a Plate" though. Anna s a master at flavor combinations, and creating just the right sauce ~ don't you just love that?!
Again, it's terrific to see you here, please visit often ~ I'm adding new things all the time.
- AnonymousSeptember 23, 2008 at 3:14 PM
Hi again! Yes, that is where I got my copy about a month ago- the rumor is true!... from annapump.com! I'd run over there right now and order up a couple! I also love "Summer on a Plate"! Anna has great recipes!ReplyDelete
That's wonderful news Joan~ thanks for the heads up.ReplyDelete
You bet, I'm ordering a few copies to give as gifts, holidays, birthdays.
Thank you again for letting me/us know!


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2012 Commencement Speakers Announced
POSTED ON: March 1, 2012
Walter Isaacson, the acclaimed biographer of Steve Jobs, Albert Einstein, Benjamin Franklin and Henry Kissinger, will be the keynote speaker at the 153rd Commencement on May 22, 2012. Our student speaker will be Benjamin Strauss from the Albert Nerken School of Engineering.
Through a defining, best-selling biography, Isaacson has described how Steve Jobs was able to connect art to technology, and to make unprecedented leaps based on intuition and imagination. Like Peter Cooper, Jobs has had a huge impact on society. As Isaacson has written, Jobs' legacy is the transformation of seven industries: personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, digital publishing and retail stores.
Isaacson is President and CEO of the Aspen Institute, a nonpartisan educational and policy studies institute based in Washington, DC. In addition to his biography, Steve Jobs (2011), Isaacson has written Einstein: His Life and Universe (2007), Benjamin Franklin: An American Life (2003), and Kissinger: A Biography (1992). He is coauthor of The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made (1986). A graduate of Harvard College and of Pembroke College of Oxford University, Isaacson was a Rhodes Scholar who began his career at The Sunday Times of London and then the New Orleans Times-Picayune/States-Item. He later joined TIME, where he served in several editorial positions before he became the magazine's 14th editor. Isaacson is also the chairman of the board of Teach for America, which recruits recent college graduates to teach in underserved communities. He was appointed by President Barack Obama and confirmed by the Senate to serve as the chairman of the Broadcasting Board of Governors, which oversees Voice of America, Radio Free Europe, and other international broadcasts of the United States. Formerly, Isaacson was the chairman and CEO of CNN.
Strauss was chosen as student speaker through a speech competition coordinated by Senior Council and judged by a panel of students, faculty and administrators. His major is interdisciplinary engineering and his academic focus has been biomedical engineering. He is on the dean's list, and serves as vice president of the Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society. He has served as a cardiopulmonary researcher at the New York University Langone Medical Center. Just this month, he filed a patent application on a cardiac device for which he has raised capital.
A resident of Teaneck, New Jersey, Strauss is an emergency medical technician and crew chief, who performs a weekly overnight 12-hour shift for the Bergenfield Volunteer Ambulance Corps. He has received two awards for his resuscitation efforts. He is also vice president of Cooper Union Hillel.
Commencement will take place in the Great Hall of The Cooper Union. A live webcast of the ceremony will be available on the Cooper Union website beginning at 10:30 AM on Commencement morning.


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Stock Slipping Down Over the Past Five Trading Sessions: Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE:RHT)
Stock Slipping Down Over the Past Five Trading Sessions: Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE:RHT)
by Engelwood Staff — September 9, 2016
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE:RHT) stock has moved in a downward direction over the past week, yielding losses for investors. Based on the recent close, the shares have dropped -0.52% over the past five trading days. Looking further out, the stock is -12.33% year to date. With increased market volatility, stakeholders will likely be deciding whether or not now is a good time to cut losses or double down on the pullback.
Wall Street analysts are still seeing some upside to the stock despite the recent move. Sell-side firms, on a consensus basis have a $87.71 price target on the name and a 2.00 recommendation, according to First Call. The recommendation is based on a 1 to 5 scale where 1 or 2 indicates a Buy recommendation, 3 a Hold and 4-5 a Sell.
In taking a look at technical levels, shares are trading -1.35% away from the 50 day simple moving average and -2.11% away from the 200 day simple moving average. Based on a recent bid, the stock is trading -14.02% away from it's 52- week high and 21.83% away from its 52 week low. after the recent increase, investors may also look to see if the stock has entered overbought territory and could possibly ripe for a pullback.
Traditionally a stock is considered to be overbought when the Relative Strength Index moves above 70. as of writing, Red Hat, Inc.'s RSI stands at 40.77 . In looking at volatility levels, the shares saw weekly volatility of 1.08% and 1.24% over the past month.
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What They Aren't Telling You About the CBO Score
The CBO report that said the health care bill won't raise deficits makes it clear that the Baucus bill's reduction in future budget deficits comes not from controlling government spending or reducing health care costs, but because of a rapid escalation in tax revenues.
The bill imposes a 40 percent excise tax on health‐insurance plans that offer benefits in excess of $8,000 for an individual plan and $21,000 for a family plan. Insurers would almost certainly pass this tax on to consumers via higher premiums. As inflation pushes insurance premiums higher in coming years, more and more middle‐class families would find themselves caught up in the tax.
In fact, overall, the tax increases in the bill are more than double the amount of deficit reduction. This isn't a health care efficiency bill or a cost containment bill. It is a tax and spend bill, pure and simple.


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SMARTD.CONF(5) 2008/03/10 SMARTD.CONF(5) NAME smartd.conf - SMART Disk Monitoring Daemon Configuration File FULL PATH /etc/smartd.conf PACKAGE VERSION smartmontools-5.38 released 2008/03/10 at 10:44:07 GMT DESCRIPTION /etc/smartd.conf is the configuration file for the smartd daemon, which monitors the Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology (SMART) system built into many ATA-3 and later ATA, IDE and SCSI-3 hard drives. If the configuration file /etc/smartd.conf is present, smartd reads it at startup, before fork(2)ing into the background. If smartd subse- quently receives a HUP signal, it will then re-read the configuration file. If smartd is running in debug mode, then an INT signal will also make it re-read the configuration file. This signal can be generated by typing <CONTROL-C> in the terminal window where smartd is running. CONFIGURATION FILE /etc/smartd.conf In the absence of a configuration file, under Linux smartd will try to open the 20 ATA devices /dev/hd[a-t] and the 26 SCSI devices /dev/sd[a- z]. Under FreeBSD, smartd will try to open all existing ATA devices (with entries in /dev) /dev/ad[0-9]+ and all existing SCSI devices /dev/da[0-9]+. Under NetBSD/OpenBSD, smartd will try to open all existing ATA devices (with entries in /dev) /dev/wd[0-9]+c and all existing SCSI devices /dev/sd[0-9]+c. Under Solaris smartd will try to open all entries "/dev/rdsk/c?t?d?s?" for IDE/ATA and SCSI disk devices, and entries "/dev/rmt/*" for SCSI tape devices. Under Windows smartd will try to open all entries "/dev/hd[a-j]" ("\\.\Physi- calDrive[0-9]") for IDE/ATA devices on WinNT4/2000/XP, "/dev/hd[a-d]" (bitmask from "\\.\SMARTVSD") for IDE/ATA devices on Win95/98/98SE/ME, and "/dev/scsi[0-9][0-7]" (ASPI adapter 0-9, ID 0-7) for SCSI devices on all versions of Windows. Under Darwin, smartd will open any ATA block storage device. This can be annoying if you have an ATA or SCSI device that hangs or misbehaves when receiving SMART commands. Even if this causes no prob- lems, you may be annoyed by the string of error log messages about block-major devices that can't be found, and SCSI devices that can't be opened. One can avoid this problem, and gain more control over the types of events monitored by smartd, by using the configuration file /etc/smartd.conf. This file contains a list of devices to monitor, with one device per line. An example file is included with the smart- montools distribution. You will find this sample configuration file in /usr/share/doc/smartmontools/. For security, the configuration file should not be writable by anyone but root. The syntax of the file is as follows: o There should be one device listed per line, although you may have lines that are entirely comments or white space. o Any text following a hash sign '#' and up to the end of the line is taken to be a comment, and ignored. o Lines may be continued by using a backslash '\' as the last non- whitespace or non-comment item on a line. o Note: a line whose first character is a hash sign '#' is treated as a white-space blank line, not as a non-existent line, and will end a continuation line. Here is an example configuration file. It's for illustrative purposes only; please don't copy it onto your system without reading to the end of the DIRECTIVES Section below! ################################################ # This is an example smartd startup config file # /etc/smartd.conf for monitoring three # ATA disks, three SCSI disks, six ATA disks # behind two 3ware controllers, two disks on a cciss # controller, three SATA disks directly connected # to the highpoint rocket-raid controller, two # SATA disks connected to the highpoint controller # via a pmport device and one SATA disk. # # First ATA disk on two different interfaces. On # the second disk, start a long self-test every # Sunday between 3 and 4 am. # /dev/hda -a -m firstname.lastname@example.com,root@localhost /dev/hdc -a -I 194 -I 5 -i 12 -s L/../../7/03 # # SCSI disks. Send a TEST warning email to admin on # startup. # /dev/sda /dev/sdb -m firstname.lastname@example.com -M test # # Strange device. It's SCSI. Start a scheduled # long self test between 5 and 6 am Monday/Thursday /dev/weird -d scsi -s L/../../(1|4)/05 # # An ATA disk may appear as a SCSI device to the # OS. If a SCSI to ATA Translation (SAT) layer # is between the OS and the device then this can be # flagged with the '-d sat' option. This situation # may become common with SATA disks in SAS and FC # environments. /dev/sda -a -d sat # # Four ATA disks on a 3ware 6/7/8000 controller. # Start short self-tests daily between midnight and 1am, # 1-2, 2-3, and 3-4 am. Starting with the Linux 2.6 # kernel series, /dev/sdX is deprecated in favor of # /dev/tweN. For example replace /dev/sdc by /dev/twe0 # and /dev/sdd by /dev/twe1. /dev/sdc -d 3ware,0 -a -s S/../.././00 /dev/sdc -d 3ware,1 -a -s S/../.././01 /dev/sdd -d 3ware,2 -a -s S/../.././02 /dev/sdd -d 3ware,3 -a -s S/../.././03 # # Two ATA disks on a 3ware 9000 controller. # Start long self-tests Sundays between midnight and # 1am and 2-3 am /dev/twa0 -d 3ware,0 -a -s L/../../7/00 /dev/twa0 -d 3ware,1 -a -s L/../../7/02 # # Monitor 2 disks connected to the first HP SmartArray controller which # uses the cciss driver. Start long tests on Sunday nights and short # self-tests every night and send errors to root /dev/cciss/c0d0 -d cciss,0 -a -s (L/../../7/02|S/../.././02) -m root /dev/cciss/c0d0 -d cciss,1 -a -s (L/../../7/03|S/../.././03) -m root # # Three SATA disks on a highpoint rocketraid controller. # Start short self-tests daily between 1-2, 2-3, and # 3-4 am. /dev/sde -d hpt,1/1 -a -s S/../.././01 /dev/sde -d hpt,1/2 -a -s S/../.././02 /dev/sde -d hpt,1/3 -a -s S/../.././03 # # Two SATA disks connected to a highpoint rocketraid # via a pmport device. Start long self-tests Sundays # between midnight and 1am and 2-3 am /dev/sde -d hpt,1/4/1 -a -s L/../../7/00 /dev/sde -d hpt,1/4/2 -a -s L/../../7/02 # # The following line enables monitoring of the # ATA Error Log and the Self-Test Error Log. # It also tracks changes in both Prefailure # and Usage Attributes, apart from Attributes # 9, 194, and 231, and shows continued lines: # /dev/hdd -l error \ -l selftest \ -t \ # Attributes not tracked: -I 194 \ # temperature -I 231 \ # also temperature -I 9 # power-on hours # ################################################ CONFIGURATION FILE DIRECTIVES If the first non-comment entry in the configuration file is the text string DEVICESCAN in capital letters, then smartd will ignore any remaining lines in the configuration file, and will scan for devices. DEVICESCAN may optionally be followed by Directives that will apply to all devices that are found in the scan. Please see below for addi- tional details. The following are the Directives that may appear following the device name or DEVICESCAN on any line of the /etc/smartd.conf configuration file. Note that these are NOT command-line options for smartd. The Directives below may appear in any order, following the device name. 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. If a SCSI disk is listed, it will be monitored at the maximum imple- mented level: roughly equivalent to using the '-H -l selftest' options for an ATA disk. So with the exception of '-d', '-m', '-l selftest', '-s', and '-M', the Directives below are ignored for SCSI disks. For SCSI disks, the '-m' Directive sends a warning email if the SMART sta- tus indicates a disk failure or problem, if the SCSI inquiry about disk status fails, or if new errors appear in the self-test log. If a 3ware controller is used then the corresponding SCSI (/dev/sd?) or character device (/dev/twe? or /dev/twa?) must be listed, along with the '-d 3ware,N' Directive (see below). The individual ATA disks hosted by the 3ware controller appear to smartd as normal ATA devices. Hence all the ATA directives can be used for these disks (but see note below). If a cciss controller is used then the corresponding block device (/dev/cciss/c?d?) must be listed, along with the '-d cciss,N' Directive (see below). -d TYPE Specifies the type of the device. This Directive may be used multiple times for one device, but the arguments ata, scsi, sat, marvell, cciss and 3ware,N are mutually-exclusive. If more than one is given then smartd will use the last one which appears. If none of these three arguments is given, then smartd will first attempt to guess the device type by looking at whether the sixth character in the device name is an 's' or an 'h'. This will work for device names like /dev/hda or /dev/sdb, and corre- sponds to choosing ata or scsi respectively. If smartd can't guess from this sixth character, then it will simply try to access the device using first ATA and then SCSI ioctl()s. The valid arguments to this Directive are: ata - the device type is ATA. This prevents smartd from issuing SCSI commands to an ATA device. scsi - the device type is SCSI. This prevents smartd from issu- ing ATA commands to a SCSI device. sat - the device type is SCSI to ATA Translation (SAT). smartd will generate ATA (smart) commands and then package them in the SAT defined ATA PASS THROUGH SCSI commands. The commands are then routed through the SCSI pass through interface to the oper- ating system. There are two types of ATA PASS THROUGH SCSI com- mands: a 12 byte and 16 byte variant. smartd can use either and defaults to the 16 byte variant. This can be overridden with this syntax: '-d sat,12' or '-d sat,16'. marvell - Under Linux, interact with SATA disks behind Marvell chip-set controllers (using the Marvell rather than libata driver). 3ware,N - the device consists of one or more ATA disks connected to a 3ware RAID controller. The non-negative integer N (in the range from 0 to 31 inclusive) denotes which disk on the con- troller is monitored. In log files and email messages this disk will be identified as 3ware_disk_XX with XX in the range from 00 to 31 inclusive. This Directive may at first appear confusing, because the 3ware controller is a SCSI device (such as /dev/sda) and should be listed as such in the the configuration file. However when the '-d 3ware,N' Directive is used, then the corresponding disk is addressed using native ATA commands which are 'passed through' the SCSI driver. All ATA Directives listed in this man page may be used. Note that while you may use any of the 3ware SCSI log- ical devices /dev/sd? to address any of the physical disks (3ware ports), error and log messages will make the most sense if you always list the 3ware SCSI logical device corresponding to the particular physical disks. Please see the smartctl man page for further details. ATA disks behind 3ware controllers may alternatively be accessed via a character device interface /dev/twe0-15 (3ware 6000/7000/8000 controllers) and /dev/twa0-15 (3ware 9000 series controllers). Note that the 9000 series controllers may only be accessed using the character device interface /dev/twa0-15 and not the SCSI device interface /dev/sd?. Please see the smartctl man page for further details. Note that older 3w-xxxx drivers do not pass the 'Enable Autosave' (-S on) and 'Enable Automatic Offline' (-o on) com- mands to the disk, if the SCSI interface is used, and produce these types of harmless syslog error messages instead: '3w-xxxx: tw_ioctl(): Passthru size (123392) too big'. This can be fixed by upgrading to version 1.02.00.037 or later of the 3w-xxxx driver, or by applying a patch to older versions. See http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ for instructions. Alter- natively use the character device interfaces /dev/twe0-15 (3ware 6/7/8000 series controllers) or /dev/twa0-15 (3ware 9000 series controllers). cciss,N - the device consists of one or more SCSI disks con- nected to a cciss RAID controller. The non-negative integer N (in the range from 0 to 15 inclusive) denotes which disk on the controller is monitored. In log files and email messages this disk will be identified as cciss_disk_XX with XX in the range from 00 to 15 inclusive. 3ware and cciss controllers are currently ONLY supported under Linux. hpt,L/M/N - the device consists of one or more ATA disks con- nected to a HighPoint RocketRAID controller. The integer L is the controller id, the integer M is the channel number, and the integer N is the PMPort number if it is available. The allowed values of L are from 1 to 4 inclusive, M are from 1 to 8 inclu- sive and N from 1 to 4 if PMPort available. And also these val- ues are limited by the model of the HighPoint RocketRAID con- troller. In log files and email messages this disk will be identified as hpt_X/X/X and X/X/X is the same as L/M/N, note if no N indicated, N set to the default value 1. HighPoint RocketRAID controllers are currently ONLY supported under Linux. removable - the device or its media is removable. This indi- cates to smartd that it should continue (instead of exiting, which is the default behavior) if the device does not appear to be present when smartd is started. This Directive may be used in conjunction with the other '-d' Directives. -n POWERMODE[,q] This 'nocheck' Directive is used to prevent a disk from being spun-up when it is periodically polled by smartd. ATA disks have five different power states. In order of increas- ing power consumption they are: 'OFF', 'SLEEP', 'STANDBY', 'IDLE', and 'ACTIVE'. Typically in the OFF, SLEEP, and STANDBY modes the disk's platters are not spinning. But usually, in response to SMART commands issued by smartd, the disk platters are spun up. So if this option is not used, then a disk which is in a low-power mode may be spun up and put into a higher-power mode when it is periodically polled by smartd. Note that if the disk is in SLEEP mode when smartd is started, then it won't respond to smartd commands, and so the disk won't be registered as a device for smartd to monitor. If a disk is in any other low-power mode, then the commands issued by smartd to register the disk will probably cause it to spin-up. The '-n' (nocheck) Directive specifies if smartd's periodic checks should still be carried out when the device is in a low-power mode. It may be used to prevent a disk from being spun-up by periodic smartd polling. The allowed values of POW- ERMODE are: never - smartd will poll (check) the device regardless of its power mode. This may cause a disk which is spun-down to be spun-up when smartd checks it. This is the default behavior if the '-n' Directive is not given. sleep - check the device unless it is in SLEEP mode. standby - check the device unless it is in SLEEP or STANDBY mode. In these modes most disks are not spinning, so if you want to prevent a laptop disk from spinning up each time that smartd polls, this is probably what you want. idle - check the device unless it is in SLEEP, STANDBY or IDLE mode. In the IDLE state, most disks are still spinning, so this is probably not what you want. When a self test is scheduled (see '-s' Directive below), the '-n' Directive is ignored, and all tests are carried out. When a periodic test is skipped, smartd normally writes an informal log message. The message can be suppressed by appending the option ',q' to POWERMODE (like '-n standby,q'). This pre- vents a laptop disk from spinning up due to this message. -T TYPE Specifies how tolerant smartd should be of SMART command fail- ures. The valid arguments to this Directive are: normal - do not try to monitor the disk if a mandatory SMART command fails, but continue if an optional SMART command fails. This is the default. permissive - try to monitor the disk even if it appears to lack SMART capabilities. This may be required for some old disks (prior to ATA-3 revision 4) that implemented SMART before the SMART standards were incorporated into the ATA/ATAPI Specifica- tions. This may also be needed for some Maxtor disks which fail to comply with the ATA Specifications and don't properly indi- cate support for error- or self-test logging. [Please see the smartctl -T command-line option.] -o VALUE Enables or disables SMART Automatic Offline Testing when smartd starts up and has no further effect. The valid arguments to this Directive are on and off. The delay between tests is vendor-specific, but is typically four hours. Note that SMART Automatic Offline Testing is not part of the ATA Specification. Please see the smartctl -o command-line option documentation for further information about this feature. -S VALUE Enables or disables Attribute Autosave when smartd starts up and has no further effect. The valid arguments to this Directive are on and off. Also affects SCSI devices. [Please see the smartctl -S command-line option.] -H Check the SMART health status of the disk. If any Prefailure Attributes are less than or equal to their threshold values, then disk failure is predicted in less than 24 hours, and a mes- sage at loglevel 'LOG_CRITICAL' will be logged to syslog. [Please see the smartctl -H command-line option.] -l TYPE Reports increases in the number of errors in one of the two SMART logs. The valid arguments to this Directive are: error - report if the number of ATA errors reported in the ATA Error Log has increased since the last check. selftest - report if the number of failed tests reported in the SMART Self-Test Log has increased since the last check, or if the timestamp associated with the most recent failed test has increased. Note that such errors will only be logged if you run self-tests on the disk (and it fails a test!). Self-Tests can be run automatically by smartd: please see the '-s' Directive below. Self-Tests can also be run manually by using the '-t short' and '-t long' options of smartctl and the results of the testing can be observed using the smartctl '-l selftest' command-line option.] [Please see the smartctl -l and -t command-line options.] -s REGEXP Run Self-Tests or Offline Immediate Tests, at scheduled times. A Self- or Offline Immediate Test will be run at the end of periodic device polling, if all 12 characters of the string T/MM/DD/d/HH match the extended regular expression REGEXP. Here: T is the type of the test. The values that smartd will try to match (in turn) are: 'L' for a Long Self-Test, 'S' for a Short Self-Test, 'C' for a Conveyance Self-Test (ATA only), and 'O' for an Offline Immediate Test (ATA only). As soon as a match is found, the test will be started and no addi- tional matches will be sought for that device and that polling cycle. MM is the month of the year, expressed with two decimal digits. The range is from 01 (January) to 12 (December) inclusive. Do not use a single decimal digit or the match will always fail! DD is the day of the month, expressed with two decimal digits. The range is from 01 to 31 inclusive. Do not use a single decimal digit or the match will always fail! d is the day of the week, expressed with one decimal digit. The range is from 1 (Monday) to 7 (Sunday) inclusive. HH is the hour of the day, written with two decimal digits, and given in hours after midnight. The range is 00 (midnight to just before 1am) to 23 (11pm to just before midnight) inclu- sive. Do not use a single decimal digit or the match will always fail! Some examples follow. In reading these, keep in mind that in extended regular expressions a dot '.' matches any single char- acter, and a parenthetical expression such as '(A|B|C)' denotes any one of the three possibilities A, B, or C. To schedule a short Self-Test between 2-3am every morning, use: -s S/../.././02 To schedule a long Self-Test between 4-5am every Sunday morning, use: -s L/../../7/04 To schedule a long Self-Test between 10-11pm on the first and fifteenth day of each month, use: -s L/../(01|15)/./22 To schedule an Offline Immediate test after every midnight, 6am, noon,and 6pm, plus a Short Self-Test daily at 1-2am and a Long Self-Test every Saturday at 3-4am, use: -s (O/../.././(00|06|12|18)|S/../.././01|L/../../6/03) Scheduled tests are run immediately following the regularly- scheduled device polling, if the current local date, time, and test type, match REGEXP. By default the regularly-scheduled device polling occurs every thirty minutes after starting smartd. Take caution if you use the '-i' option to make this polling interval more than sixty minutes: the poll times may fail to coincide with any of the testing times that you have specified with REGEXP, and so the self tests may not take place as you wish. Before running an offline or self-test, smartd checks to be sure that a self-test is not already running. If a self-test is already running, then this running self test will not be inter- rupted to begin another test. smartd will not attempt to run any type of test if another test was already started or run in the same hour. To avoid performance problems during system boot, smartd will not attempt to run any scheduled tests following the very first device polling (unless '-q onecheck' is specified). Each time a test is run, smartd will log an entry to SYSLOG. You can use these or the '-q showtests' command-line option to verify that you constructed REGEXP correctly. The matching order (L before S before C before O) ensures that if multiple test types are all scheduled for the same hour, the longer test type has precedence. This is usually the desired behavior. Unix users: please beware that the rules for extended regular expressions [regex(7)] are not the same as the rules for file-name pattern matching by the shell [glob(7)]. smartd will issue harmless informational warning messages if it detects characters in REGEXP that appear to indicate that you have made this mistake. -m ADD Send a warning email to the email address ADD if the '-H', '-l', '-f', '-C', or '-O' Directives detect a failure or a new error, or if a SMART command to the disk fails. This Directive only works in conjunction with these other 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 the enabled alert types, '-H', '-l', '-f', '-C', or '-O' even if more than one failure or error is detected or if the failure or error persists. [This behavior can be modified; see the '-M' Directive below.] To send email to more than one user, please use the following "comma separated" form for the address: user1@add1,user2@add2,...,userN@addN (with no spaces). To test that email is being sent correctly, use the '-M test' Directive described below to send one test email message on smartd startup. By default, email is sent using the system mail command. In order that smartd find the mail command (normally /bin/mail) an executable named 'mail' must be in the path of the shell or environment from which smartd was started. If you wish to spec- ify an explicit path to the mail executable (for example /usr/local/bin/mail) or a custom script to run, please use the '-M exec' Directive below. Note that by default under Solaris, in the previous paragraph, 'mailx' and '/bin/mailx' are used, since Solaris '/bin/mail' does not accept a '-s' (Subject) command-line argument. On Windows, the 'Blat' mailer (http://blat.sourceforge.net/) is used by default. This mailer uses a different command line syn- tax, see '-M exec' below. Note also that there is a special argument <nomailer> which can be given to the '-m' Directive in conjunction with the '-M exec' Directive. Please see below for an explanation of its effect. If the mailer or the shell running it produces any STDERR/STDOUT output, then a snippet of that output will be copied to SYSLOG. The remainder of the output is discarded. If problems are encountered in sending mail, this should help you to understand and fix them. If you have mail problems, we recommend running smartd in debug mode with the '-d' flag, using the '-M test' Directive described below. The following extension is available on Windows: By specifying 'msgbox' as a mail address, a warning "email" is displayed as a message box on the screen. Using both 'msgbox' and regular mail addresses is possible, if 'msgbox' is the first word in the comma separated list. With 'sysmsgbox', a system modal (always on top) message box is used. If running as a service, a service notification message box (always shown on current visible desk- top) is used. -M TYPE These Directives modify the behavior of the smartd email warn- ings enabled with the '-m' email Directive described above. These '-M' Directives only work in conjunction with the '-m' Directive and can not be used without it. Multiple -M Directives may be given. If more than one of the following three -M Directives are given (example: -M once -M daily) then the final one (in the example, -M daily) is used. The valid arguments to the -M Directive are (one of the follow- ing three): once - send only one warning email for each type of disk problem detected. This is the default. daily - send additional warning reminder emails, once per day, for each type of disk problem detected. diminishing - send additional warning reminder emails, after a one-day interval, then a two-day interval, then a four-day interval, and so on for each type of disk problem detected. Each interval is twice as long as the previous interval. In addition, one may add zero or more of the following Direc- tives: test - send a single test email immediately upon smartd startup. This allows one to verify that email is delivered correctly. Note that if this Directive is used, smartd will also send the normal email warnings that were enabled with the '-m' Directive, in addition to the single test email! exec PATH - run the executable PATH instead of the default mail command, when smartd needs to send email. PATH must point to an executable binary file or script. By setting PATH to point to a customized script, you can make smartd perform useful tricks when a disk problem is detected (beeping the console, shutting down the machine, broadcasting warnings to all logged-in users, etc.) But please be careful. smartd will block until the executable PATH returns, so if your executable hangs, then smartd will also hang. Some sample scripts are included in /usr/share/doc/smartmontools/example- scripts/. The return status of the executable is recorded by smartd in SYSLOG. The executable is not expected to write to STDOUT or STDERR. If it does, then this is interpreted as indicating that something is going wrong with your executable, and a fragment of this output is logged to SYSLOG to help you to understand the problem. Normally, if you wish to leave some record behind, the executable should send mail or write to a file or device. Before running the executable, smartd sets a number of environ- ment variables. These environment variables may be used to con- trol the executable's behavior. The environment variables exported by smartd are: SMARTD_MAILER is set to the argument of -M exec, if present or else to 'mail' (examples: /bin/mail, mail). SMARTD_DEVICE is set to the device path (examples: /dev/hda, /dev/sdb). SMARTD_DEVICETYPE is set to the device type (possible values: ata, scsi, 3ware,N, cciss,N, hpt,L/M/N). Here N=0,...,23 denotes the ATA disk behind a 3ware or cciss RAID controller and L/M/N denotes the SATA disk behind a HighPoint RocketRAID con- troller. SMARTD_DEVICESTRING is set to the device description. For SMARTD_DEVICETYPE of ata or scsi, this is the same as SMARTD_DEVICE. For 3ware RAID controllers, the form used is '/dev/sdc [3ware_disk_01]'. For HighPoint RocketRAID controller, the form is '/dev/sdd [hpt_1/1/1]'. In these cases the device string contains a space and is NOT quoted. So to use $SMARTD_DEVICESTRING in a bash script you should probably enclose it in double quotes. SMARTD_FAILTYPE gives the reason for the warning or message email. The pos- sible values that it takes and their meanings are: EmailTest: this is an email test message. Health: the SMART health status indicates imminent failure. Usage: a usage Attribute has failed. SelfTest: the number of self-test failures has increased. ErrorCount: the number of errors in the ATA error log has increased. CurrentPendingSector: one of more disk sectors could not be read and are marked to be reallocated (replaced with spare sectors). OfflineUncorrectableSector: during off-line testing, or self-testing, one or more disk sectors could not be read. FailedHealthCheck: the SMART health status command failed. FailedReadSmartData: the command to read SMART Attribute data failed. FailedReadSmartErrorLog: the command to read the SMART error log failed. FailedReadSmartSelfTestLog: the command to read the SMART self-test log failed. FailedOpenDevice: the open() command to the device failed. SMARTD_ADDRESS is determined by the address argument ADD of the '-m' Direc- tive. If ADD is <nomailer>, then SMARTD_ADDRESS is not set. Otherwise, it is set to the comma-separated-list of email addresses given by the argument ADD, with the commas replaced by spaces (example:firstname.lastname@example.com root). If more than one email address is given, then this string will contain space characters and is NOT quoted, so to use it in a bash script you may want to enclose it in double quotes. SMARTD_MESSAGE is set to the one sentence summary warning email message string from smartd. This message string contains space characters and is NOT quoted. So to use $SMARTD_MESSAGE in a bash script you should probably enclose it in double quotes. SMARTD_FULLMESSAGE is set to the contents of the entire email warning message string from smartd. This message string contains space and return characters and is NOT quoted. So to use $SMARTD_FULLMESSAGE in a bash script you should probably enclose it in double quotes. SMARTD_TFIRST is a text string giving the time and date at which the first problem of this type was reported. This text string contains space characters and no newlines, and is NOT quoted. For example: Sun Feb 9 14:58:19 2003 CST SMARTD_TFIRSTEPOCH is an integer, which is the unix epoch (number of seconds since Jan 1, 1970) for SMARTD_TFIRST. The shell which is used to run PATH is system-dependent. For vanilla Linux/glibc it's bash. For other systems, the man page for popen(3) should say what shell is used. If the '-m ADD' Directive is given with a normal address argu- ment, then the executable pointed to by PATH will be run in a shell with STDIN receiving the body of the email message, and with the same command-line arguments: -s "$SMARTD_SUBJECT" $SMARTD_ADDRESS that would normally be provided to 'mail'. Examples include: -m user@home -M exec /bin/mail -m admin@work -M exec /usr/local/bin/mailto -m root -M exec /Example_1/bash/script/below Note that on Windows, the syntax of the 'Blat' mailer is used: - -q -subject "$SMARTD_SUBJECT" -to "$SMARTD_ADDRESS" If the '-m ADD' Directive is given with the special address argument <nomailer> then the executable pointed to by PATH is run in a shell with no STDIN and no command-line arguments, for example: -m <nomailer> -M exec /Example_2/bash/script/below If the executable produces any STDERR/STDOUT output, then smartd assumes that something is going wrong, and a snippet of that output will be copied to SYSLOG. The remainder of the output is then discarded. Some EXAMPLES of scripts that can be used with the '-M exec' Directive are given below. Some sample scripts are also included in /usr/share/doc/smartmontools/examplescripts/. -f Check for 'failure' of any Usage Attributes. If these Attributes are less than or equal to the threshold, it does NOT indicate imminent disk failure. It "indicates an advisory con- dition where the usage or age of the device has exceeded its intended design life period." [Please see the smartctl -A com- mand-line option.] -p Report anytime that a Prefail Attribute has changed its value since the last check, 30 minutes ago. [Please see the smartctl -A command-line option.] -u Report anytime that a Usage Attribute has changed its value since the last check, 30 minutes ago. [Please see the smartctl -A command-line option.] -t Equivalent to turning on the two previous flags '-p' and '-u'. Tracks changes in all device Attributes (both Prefailure and Usage). [Please see the smartctl -A command-line option.] -i ID Ignore device Attribute number ID when checking for failure of Usage Attributes. ID must be a decimal integer in the range from 1 to 255. This Directive modifies the behavior of the '-f' Directive and has no effect without it. This is useful, for example, if you have a very old disk and don't want to keep getting messages about the hours-on-lifetime Attribute (usually Attribute 9) failing. This Directive may appear multiple times for a single device, if you want to ignore multiple Attributes. -I ID Ignore device Attribute ID when tracking changes in the Attribute values. ID must be a decimal integer in the range from 1 to 255. This Directive modifies the behavior of the '-p', '-u', and '-t' tracking Directives and has no effect with- out one of them. This is useful, for example, if one of the device Attributes is the disk temperature (usually Attribute 194 or 231). It's annoy- ing to get reports each time the temperature changes. This Directive may appear multiple times for a single device, if you want to ignore multiple Attributes. -r ID When tracking, report the Raw value of Attribute ID along with its (normally reported) Normalized value. ID must be a decimal integer in the range from 1 to 255. This Directive modifies the behavior of the '-p', '-u', and '-t' tracking Directives and has no effect without one of them. This Directive may be given mul- tiple times. A common use of this Directive is to track the device Tempera- ture (often ID=194 or 231). -R ID When tracking, report whenever the Raw value of Attribute ID changes. (Normally smartd only tracks/reports changes of the Normalized Attribute values.) ID must be a decimal integer in the range from 1 to 255. This Directive modifies the behavior of the '-p', '-u', and '-t' tracking Directives and has no effect without one of them. This Directive may be given multi- ple times. If this Directive is given, it automatically implies the '-r' Directive for the same Attribute, so that the Raw value of the Attribute is reported. A common use of this Directive is to track the device Tempera- ture (often ID=194 or 231). It is also useful for understanding how different types of system behavior affects the values of certain Attributes. -C ID [ATA only] Report if the current number of pending sectors is non-zero. Here ID is the id number of the Attribute whose raw value is the Current Pending Sector count. The allowed range of ID is 0 to 255 inclusive. To turn off this reporting, use ID = 0. If the -C ID option is not given, then it defaults to -C 197 (since Attribute 197 is generally used to monitor pending sectors). A pending sector is a disk sector (containing 512 bytes of your data) which the device would like to mark as ``bad" and reallo- cate. Typically this is because your computer tried to read that sector, and the read failed because the data on it has been corrupted and has inconsistent Error Checking and Correction (ECC) codes. This is important to know, because it means that there is some unreadable data on the disk. The problem of fig- uring out what file this data belongs to is operating system and file system specific. You can typically force the sector to reallocate by writing to it (translation: make the device sub- stitute a spare good sector for the bad one) but at the price of losing the 512 bytes of data stored there. -U ID [ATA only] Report if the number of offline uncorrectable sectors is non-zero. Here ID is the id number of the Attribute whose raw value is the Offline Uncorrectable Sector count. The allowed range of ID is 0 to 255 inclusive. To turn off this reporting, use ID = 0. If the -U ID option is not given, then it defaults to -U 198 (since Attribute 198 is generally used to monitor offline uncorrectable sectors). An offline uncorrectable sector is a disk sector which was not readable during an off-line scan or a self-test. This is impor- tant to know, because if you have data stored in this disk sec- tor, and you need to read it, the read will fail. Please see the previous '-C' option for more details. -W DIFF[,INFO[,CRIT]] Report if the current temperature had changed by at least DIFF degrees since last report. Report or Warn if the temperature is greater or equal than one of INFO or CRIT degrees Celsius. If the limit CRIT is reached, a message with loglevel 'LOG_CRITI- CAL' will be logged to syslog and a warning email will be send if '-m' is specified. If only the limit INFO is reached, a mes- sage with loglevel 'LOG_INFO' will be logged. To disable any of the 3 reports, set the corresponding limit to 0. Trailing zero arguments may be omitted. By default, all tem- perature reports are disabled ('-W 0'). To track temperature changes of at least 2 degrees, use: -W 2 To log informal messages on temperatures of at least 40 degrees, use: -W 0,40 For warning messages/mails on temperatures of at least 45 degrees, use: -W 0,0,45 To combine all of the above reports, use: -W 2,40,45 For ATA devices, smartd interprets Attribute 194 as Temperature Celsius by default. This can be changed to Attribute 9 or 220 by the drive database or by the '-v' directive, see below. -F TYPE [ATA only] Modifies the behavior of smartd to compensate for some known and understood device firmware bug. The arguments to this Directive are exclusive, so that only the final Directive given is used. The valid values are: none - Assume that the device firmware obeys the ATA specifica- tions. This is the default, unless the device has presets for '-F' in the device database. samsung - In some Samsung disks (example: model SV4012H Firmware Version: RM100-08) some of the two- and four-byte quantities in the SMART data structures are byte-swapped (relative to the ATA specification). Enabling this option tells smartd to evaluate these quantities in byte-reversed order. Some signs that your disk needs this option are (1) no self-test log printed, even though you have run self-tests; (2) very large numbers of ATA errors reported in the ATA error log; (3) strange and impossible values for the ATA error log timestamps. samsung2 - In more recent Samsung disks (firmware revisions end- ing in "-23") the number of ATA errors reported is byte swapped. Enabling this option tells smartd to evaluate this quantity in byte-reversed order. samsung3 - Some Samsung disks (at least SP2514N with Firmware VF100-37) report a self-test still in progress with 0% remaining when the test was already completed. If this directive is speci- fied, smartd will not skip the next scheduled self-test (see Directive '-s' above) in this case. Note that an explicit '-F' Directive will over-ride any preset values for '-F' (see the '-P' option below). [Please see the smartctl -F command-line option.] -v N,OPTION Modifies the labeling for Attribute N, for disks which use non- standard Attribute definitions. This is useful in connection with the Attribute tracking/reporting Directives. This Directive may appear multiple times. Valid arguments to this Directive are: 9,minutes - Raw Attribute number 9 is power-on time in minutes. Its raw value will be displayed in the form 'Xh+Ym'. Here X is hours, and Y is minutes in the range 0-59 inclusive. Y is always printed with two digits, for example '06' or '31' or '00'. 9,seconds - Raw Attribute number 9 is power-on time in seconds. Its raw value will be displayed in the form 'Xh+Ym+Zs'. Here X is hours, Y is minutes in the range 0-59 inclusive, and Z is seconds in the range 0-59 inclusive. Y and Z are always printed with two digits, for example '06' or '31' or '00'. 9,halfminutes - Raw Attribute number 9 is power-on time, measured in units of 30 seconds. This format is used by some Samsung disks. Its raw value will be displayed in the form 'Xh+Ym'. Here X is hours, and Y is minutes in the range 0-59 inclusive. Y is always printed with two digits, for example '06' or '31' or '00'. 9,temp - Raw Attribute number 9 is the disk temperature in Cel- sius. 192,emergencyretractcyclect - Raw Attribute number 192 is the Emergency Retract Cycle Count. 193,loadunload - Raw Attribute number 193 contains two values. The first is the number of load cycles. The second is the num- ber of unload cycles. The difference between these two values is the number of times that the drive was unexpectedly powered off (also called an emergency unload). As a rule of thumb, the mechanical stress created by one emergency unload is equivalent to that created by one hundred normal unloads. 194,10xCelsius - Raw Attribute number 194 is ten times the disk temperature in Celsius. This is used by some Samsung disks (example: model SV1204H with RK100-13 firmware). 194,unknown - Raw Attribute number 194 is NOT the disk tempera- ture, and its interpretation is unknown. This is primarily use- ful for the -P (presets) Directive. 198,offlinescanuncsectorct - Raw Attribute number 198 is the Offline Scan UNC Sector Count. 200,writeerrorcount - Raw Attribute number 200 is the Write Error Count. 201,detectedtacount - Raw Attribute number 201 is the Detected TA Count. 220,temp - Raw Attribute number 220 is the disk temperature in Celsius. Note: a table of hard drive models, listing which Attribute cor- responds to temperature, can be found at: http://www.guzu.net/linux/hddtemp.db N,raw8 - Print the Raw value of Attribute N as six 8-bit unsigned base-10 integers. This may be useful for decoding the meaning of the Raw value. The form 'N,raw8' prints Raw values for ALL Attributes in this form. The form (for example) '123,raw8' only prints the Raw value for Attribute 123 in this form. N,raw16 - Print the Raw value of Attribute N as three 16-bit unsigned base-10 integers. This may be useful for decoding the meaning of the Raw value. The form 'N,raw16' prints Raw values for ALL Attributes in this form. The form (for example) '123,raw16' only prints the Raw value for Attribute 123 in this form. N,raw48 - Print the Raw value of Attribute N as a 48-bit unsigned base-10 integer. This may be useful for decoding the meaning of the Raw value. The form 'N,raw48' prints Raw values for ALL Attributes in this form. The form (for example) '123,raw48' only prints the Raw value for Attribute 123 in this form. -P TYPE Specifies whether smartd should use any preset options that are available for this drive. The valid arguments to this Directive are: use - use any presets that are available for this drive. This is the default. ignore - do not use any presets for this drive. show - show the presets listed for this drive in the database. showall - show the presets that are available for all drives and then exit. [Please see the smartctl -P command-line option.] -a Equivalent to turning on all of the following Directives: '-H' to check the SMART health status, '-f' to report failures of Usage (rather than Prefail) Attributes, '-t' to track changes in both Prefailure and Usage Attributes, '-l selftest' to report increases in the number of Self-Test Log errors, '-l error' to report increases in the number of ATA errors, '-C 197' to report nonzero values of the current pending sector count, and '-U 198' to report nonzero values of the offline pending sector count. Note that -a is the default for ATA devices. If none of these other Directives is given, then -a is assumed. # Comment: ignore the remainder of the line. \ Continuation character: if this is the last non-white or non- comment character on a line, then the following line is a con- tinuation of the current one. If you are not sure which Directives to use, I suggest experimenting for a few minutes with smartctl to see what SMART functionality your disk(s) support(s). If you do not like voluminous syslog messages, a good choice of smartd configuration file Directives might be: -H -l selftest -l error -f. If you want more frequent information, use: -a. ADDITIONAL DETAILS ABOUT DEVICESCAN If the first non-comment entry in the configuration file is the text string DEVICESCAN in capital letters, then smartd will ignore any remaining lines in the configuration file, and will scan for devices. If DEVICESCAN is not followed by any Directives, then smartd will scan for both ATA and SCSI devices, and will monitor all possible SMART properties of any devices that are found. DEVICESCAN may optionally be followed by any valid Directives, which will be applied to all devices that are found in the scan. For example DEVICESCAN -m email@example.com will scan for all devices, and then monitor them. It will send one email warning per device for any problems that are found. DEVICESCAN -d ata -m email@example.com will do the same, but restricts the scan to ATA devices only. DEVICESCAN -H -d ata -m email@example.com will do the same, but only monitors the SMART health status of the devices, (rather than the default -a, which monitors all SMART properties). EXAMPLES OF SHELL SCRIPTS FOR '-M exec' These are two examples of shell scripts that can be used with the '-M exec PATH' Directive described previously. The paths to these scripts and similar executables is the PATH argument to the '-M exec PATH' Directive. Example 1: This script is for use with '-m ADDRESS -M exec PATH'. It appends the output of smartctl -a to the output of the smartd email warning message and sends it to ADDRESS. #! /bin/bash # Save the email message (STDIN) to a file: cat > /root/msg # Append the output of smartctl -a to the message: /usr/sbin/smartctl -a -d $SMART_DEVICETYPE $SMARTD_DEVICE >> /root/msg # Now email the message to the user at address ADD: /bin/mail -s "$SMARTD_SUBJECT" $SMARTD_ADDRESS < /root/msg Example 2: This script is for use with '-m <nomailer> -M exec PATH'. It warns all users about a disk problem, waits 30 sec- onds, and then powers down the machine. #! /bin/bash # Warn all users of a problem wall 'Problem detected with disk: ' "$SMARTD_DEVICESTRING" wall 'Warning message from smartd is: ' "$SMARTD_MESSAGE" wall 'Shutting down machine in 30 seconds... ' # Wait half a minute sleep 30 # Power down the machine /sbin/shutdown -hf now Some example scripts are distributed with the smartmontools package, in /usr/share/doc/smartmontools/examplescripts/. Please note that these scripts typically run as root, so any files that they read/write should not be writable by ordinary users or reside in directories like /tmp that are writable by ordinary users and may expose your system to symlink attacks. As previously described, if the scripts write to STDOUT or STDERR, this is interpreted as indicating that there was an internal error within the script, and a snippet of STDOUT/STDERR is logged to SYSLOG. The remainder is flushed. AUTHOR Bruce Allen firstname.lastname@example.com University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee Physics Department CONTRIBUTORS The following have made large contributions to smartmontools: Casper Dik (Solaris SCSI interface) Christian Franke (Windows interface and Cygwin package) Douglas Gilbert (SCSI subsystem) Guido Guenther (Autoconf/Automake packaging) Geoffrey Keating (Darwin ATA interface) Eduard Martinescu (FreeBSD interface) Frederic L. W. Meunier (Web site and Mailing list) Keiji Sawada (Solaris ATA interface) Sergey Svishchev (NetBSD interface) David Snyder and Sergey Svishchev (OpenBSD interface) Phil Williams (User interface and drive database) Shengfeng Zhou (Linux Highpoint RocketRaid interface) Many other individuals have made smaller contributions and corrections. CREDITS This code was derived from the smartsuite package, written by Michael Cornwell, and from the previous ucsc smartsuite package. It extends these to cover ATA-5 disks. This code was originally developed as a Senior Thesis by Michael Cornwell at the Concurrent Systems Laboratory (now part of the Storage Systems Research Center), Jack Baskin School of Engineering, University of California, Santa Cruz. http://ssrc.soe.ucsc.edu/ . HOME PAGE FOR SMARTMONTOOLS: Please see the following web site for updates, further documentation, bug reports and patches: http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ SEE ALSO: smartd(8), smartctl(8), syslogd(8), syslog.conf(5), badblocks(8), ide-smart(8), regex(7). CVS ID OF THIS PAGE: $Id: smartd.conf.5.in,v 1.87 2008/03/04 22:09:47 ballen4705 Exp $ smartmontools-5.38 2008/03/10 SMARTD.CONF(5)
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Cowboys pass-rusher DeMarcus Ware has been an outside linebacker since he entered the NFL.
But according to new Cowboys defensive line coach Rod Marinelli, the transition to defensive end in a 4-3 defense might be just what he needs.
The 30-year-old Ware had "just" 11.5 sacks last year while struggling with injuries, after racking up 99.5 in his first seven seasons.
"I think it'll aid him a little bit, because your takeoff is better," Marinelli said of Ware, via the Dallas Morning News. "Your keys are a little more consistent with what you're doing. That's my opinion. I see him, I mean he's an elite rusher right now. I just think the more opportunity he has, doing the same things every day, every week, the repetition, which allows you to become even faster.
"The sky is the limit for him, I believe."
The hope is that some of those sacks turn into forced fumbles, as the Cowboys forced just 16 turnovers last season. Marinelli's defense in Chicago led the league with 44 takeaways.
"I put a tremendous amount of pressure on myself and the player on one-on-one wins, because the back row, we're leaving them hung out," Marinelli said. "They want to break on the ball. And they want to make plays on the ball. But if that guy reloads, reloads, it takes away their aggressiveness. So it's my job to help those guys trust the rush by, not by talking about it, but by seeing it on tape.
"I think more than 50 to 60 percent of takeaways come from the pocket. It could be a sack-fumble or a ball is thrown high or thrown too quick or guys are breaking or tips, things like that. A major part of those things are from the pocket. It could be a blitz or a four-man rush. Make the guy throw it quick or throw it high."
Getting Ware healthy for a change and back to his previous form will be a crucial first step in that process.


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Survey results released Thursday by ING U.S. found that pre-retirees may be in for a rude awakening when they stop working. Although just 8% said they expect to have a lower standard of living in retirement than they do currently, 33% of retired respondents said they've had to cut back now that they aren't working.
In a separate survey conducted online by ING in June, 80% of respondents said they would rather tighten their purse strings now to guarantee income in retirement. Almost 40% still expected to run out of money in retirement. That might not be very surprising, though, considering over a third of respondents think they can retire comfortably with $500,000.
ING surveyed 850 adults over age 30 for the phone poll in early June. The online poll gathered responses from about 2,400 consumers in mid-June and early July. Results from both surveys were released simultaneously.
ING found that advisors were a significant factor in respondents' confidence. Almost 90% of respondents who work with an advisor said they've calculate what their current savings mean for their monthly income in retirement, compared to 59% of those without an advisor. While 37% of respondents thought it likely that they'd run out of money in retirement, among those without an advisor, 41% had the same fear.
"Don't get me wrong; change is good and we all hope to get to that point at some time, but without some help, a retiree can easily get thrown off course," Rich Linton, president of individual markets for ING U.S., said in a presentation discussing the surveys' results.
One of the greatest obstacles to retirement planning is inertia, Linton said. "Retirement planning is complicated, it's not an immediate need for me today, or frankly, it's not interesting to an individual so they put it off," he said.
An advisor's value starts, then, with helping investors get over those obstacles, he added. One way for advisors to do that, according to Linton, is to help frame retirement in a way that makes it tangible and relevant to today.
Linton said that retirement savings are not one goal, but three: "It's about understanding your needs, your wants and your wishes."
He stressed that advisors should focus on life stages to help frame retirement planning. For example, a younger client may have student debt they're still paying off, and may need help seeing past those obligations to plan for retirement.
Rick Mason, president of corporate markets, addressed the role plan sponsors play in retirement planning. He said 12% of sponsors currently offer an income solution in their fund line-up, and that is expected to double over the next year. "It shows there's an increase in focus on helping participants connect their savings to income," Mason said.
He suggested applying some of the automatic features that have helped investors in the accumulation phase could benefit those in the decumulation phase as well.
"Employers are going to be increasingly involved in advancing retirement readiness in the work force, not just because employees are asking for it, but because employers are being increasingly looked at by policymakers to play a greater role."
They also stand to benefit, though, because when employees aren't ready to retire, it can drive up health care costs and keep older workers in positions instead of advancing younger workers.


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While it may not be the favorite album of most Dylan fans, "Blood on the Tracks" seems to be loved by all of them. It's an adult, emotional album inspired by the breakup of his marriage to Sara Lowndes — the source of the blood on the tracks.
Dylan originally recorded the songs at Columbia's New York studio in September 1974, mostly with Eric Weissberg and his band. Dylan continued to mull over the songs, apparently concerned about the sound and about the overtly autobiographical nature of certain of the songs. In December he returned to his farm on the Crow River in rural Minnesota while Columbia readied the album for release in January.
Dylan's brother, David Zimmerman, suggested that Dylan rerecord the songs that were troubling him at Sound 80, a local Minneapolis studio. David enlisted several local musicians whom he knew from his advertising and recording work. Dylan rewrote and rerecorded "Idiot Wind," "You're a Big Girl Now," "Tangled Up In Blue," "Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts," and "If You See Her, Say Hello."
Among the Minneapolis musicians who contributed to the five tracks rerecorded at Sound 80 were guitarist Kevin Odegard, bassist Billy Peterson, and drummer Bill Berg. Mandolinist extraordinaire Peter Ostroushko was called in to contribute a mandolin part on "If You See Her, Say Hello." Ostroushko had trouble getting the sound that Dylan wanted until Dylan explained he wanted the instrumental part to sound like "birds' wings flapping in the air."
Three weeks later, in January 1975, Columbia released "Blood on the Tracks" with the five songs rerecorded in Minneapolis. The album cover had already been printed the previous month, however, and the only musicians listed were Eric Weissberg's band. The album went straight to number one, and Columbia has never bothered to correct the musician listings on the original cover.
It is a historic injustice that Kevin Odegard has labored long to correct. He has now co-authored a book on the recording of "Blood on the Tracks" — A Simple Twist of Fate: Bob Dylan and the Making of Blood on the Tracks — and put together a concert featuring the Minneapolis musicians who played on the album to promote the book. Eric Weissberg is also included in the concert lineup.
This coming Wednesday Odegard and friends will perform "Blood on the Tracks" at the Pantages Theatre in downtown Minneapolis. It should be a great event. Today's Minneapolis Star Tribune has a good story on the upcoming concert: "Minneapolis musicians set record straight on 'Blood on the Tracks.'"
The songs on "Blood on the Tracks" include several highlights of the Dylan catalogue. One of the special qualities of the writing is the before-and-after feeling captured in several of the songs. In "Shelter From the Storm," for example, Dylan sings: "I bargained for salvation, and she gave me a lethal dose." (This seems to be a lyric Dylan is ambivalent about; the linked page for the song on the official Dylan site changes "she" to "they.") My favorite song on the album is "You're a Big Girl Now." If you think Dylan can't sing, this song should disabuse you of the notion.
In the photo below, Greg Inhofer, Chris Weber and Kevin Odegard rehearse for Wednesday's show.
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Brad Womack and Emily Maynard are determined to make their relationship work. Though a source tells Us Weekly they're going through a "rough patch," the couple reunited at Kona Grill in Austin, Texas on Friday.
According to an eyewitness, "Brad was laughing and Emily was smiling" during the intimate meal. The following night, the two bonded over drinks at Fado, just two blocks away from Womack's condo in Austin, Texas.
"Emily was her putting her hands in the air and dancing in her seat. They were both smiling and chatting," another eyewitness tells Us. When a fan approached the Bachelor couple for a photo, "they held hands across the table and willingly smiled."
Despite their seemingly happy reunion, Womack, 38, and Maynard, 25, still have some serious issues to work out. Chief among them? Womack co-owns four bars in Austin, while Maynard lives in her native North Carolina with her 5-year-old daughter, Ricki.
One question remains: will they make it? Dayla Burkett, whom Womack dated nine years ago, certainly thinks so.
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My name is Jodi Phillips, I reside in Reidsville, and I am employed as the office manager for Nunez Pine Straw in Baxley. I have been working here since the end of May. In the few short months that I have been here, I have noticed a lot of stray dogs being left for the animal shelter, which is located directly behind our office. In the past month, there have been four puppies left and they run around our office as well as the mobile homes searching for food.
I was able to take one of them to the shelter one day when I saw the Animal Control officer driving by. (I had called the day before about it and he never stopped by.) A week later, there were two more puppies here, fortunately, I, myself was able to find them homes! Today, there is another one. I have not seen the Animal Control officer go by our office since last week. I can hear the dogs in the back barking whenever employees go to the water treatment plant.
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*Relationships – looking at your chart and the chart of anyone else (a romantic partner, a friend, a parent, a child, a boss, an employee, and on and on). These readings have a special astrological name; they are synastry readings.
*Location and Relocation – looking at your chart in relation to the world map to learn about energy lines and how locations will affect your energy field, for work, family, vacation, education, and romance). These readings are done using a technique called astrocartography.
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2010 was originally set to be the last year of competition for the aging Dallara IndyCar chassis. Political turmoil has postponed the changeover, however, and the IRL is currently evaluating its options. This car is part of Swift Engineering's proposal.
The Indy Racing League has had a tough couple of years. Rising costs, shrinking TV audiences, and the very public CART battle have left the series on somewhat unstable ground. Its star drivers have a bad habit of defecting to greener pastures (see Hornish/Patrick/NASCAR, etc.), and its spec car is neither dramatic nor particularly inspiring to watch run. In a nutshell, the IRL is floundering, a series in search of a soul.
Plans to revamp the league have been underway for some time, but concrete results have yet to appear. The current car — a dumpy-looking spec chassis built by Italian manufacturer Dallara and powered by a Honda V-8 — is one of the areas targeted for change. Several meetings between IRL officials and potential engine suppliers took place in 2009, and chassis proposals have been recieved from manufacturers like Lola, Dallara, and the Chip Ganassi-backed Delta Wing. Exact specifications are still up in the air, but the engine package has reportedly been narrowed down to a vague set of requirements: a displacement under two liters, no more than four valves per cylinder, and allowable direct injection and turbocharging.
The car you see here is part of a proposal by American racing-car manufacturer Swift Engineering, one designed to help reinvigorate the series while offering fan- and driver-friendly qualities. (Swift has a long history of race-car construction; the firm essentially reinvented Formula Ford in the early 1980s and is responsible for the current Toyota Atlantic chassis.)
There isn't much available in the way of specifics, but Swift's proposal appears to offer two separate body styles — a low-drag setup for ovals and a downforce-heavy arrangement for road courses — and an exposed driveline. Will it or one of its competitors be enough to jolt some life back into the IRL? Only time will tell.


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The first Elite 8 game has ended, and the Louisville Cardinals are heading to the Final Four.
This quick post provides all the basic info for the 2012 Final Four, as well as links to purchase tickets.
2012 Final Four Info
- Final Four Location: New Orleans, LA
- Final Four Arena: Superdome
- Final Four Date: Saturday, March 31st
- Final Four Game Times: 6:09 ET and 8:49 ET (matchups TBA)
- Final Four TV: CBS
- Final Four Announcers: Jim Nantz, Clark Kellogg, and Steve Kerr
- Vivid Seats: Final Four Tickets
Louisville Cardinals Team Capsule
- Conference: Big East
- Record: 26-9 (10-8 conf)
- Last 10 Games: 6-4
- Record vs. Tournament Teams: 10-7
- Wins vs. Tournament Teams: Cincinnati, Connecticut, Lamar, Long Beach State, Marquette, Memphis, Notre Dame, Vanderbilt, West Virginia, Western Kentucky
- Losses vs. Tournament Teams: Cincinnati, Georgetown, Kentucky, Notre Dame, Marquette, Syracuse (2)
- Player to Watch: Peyton Siva (5'11" G, Jr.) – 9.1 ppg, 3.3 rpg, 5.5 apg, 1.8 spg
Louisville Bottoms Line:
The Cardinals battled injuries and shooting woes for most of the season but pulled it together for an impressive four-game run in the Big East Tournament. They rank in the Top 5 in defensive efficiency, thanks largely to a strong effective field goal percentage defense and their ability to force turnovers. The offense numbers for the season are pretty ugly for the most part, with the exception of their high offensive rebounding percentage. For the year, the Cardinals shot just 31.1 percent from beyond the arc to go with a high turnover rate.
Six players score at least 9.0 points per game, led by Kyle Kuric with 13.1. Guard Russ Smith can get hot and score in bunches, but he is the definition of a volume shooter. Peyton Siva struggled for much of the season but played some of his best basketball in the Big East Tournament, while Chris Smith is the team's best long-range shooter. Inside, Gorgui Dieng has really improved as a sophomore and shoots 54.9 percent from the field and grabs over nine rebounds per game. He's joined up front by freshman Chane Behanan, who also boasts solid rebounding percentages on both ends.


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Mayor Bloomberg's Apartheid Policing Extends To New York's Schools
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The number of Black students arrested by the New York Police Department's School Safety Division was 12 times higher than that of their White counterparts, according to a report released on May 30, 2012, by the New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU).
The analysis further states that 96 percent of the 327 arrests made in the first quarter of this year were of Black or Latino students. Blacks make up a mere 31 percent of the student population, and Latinos make up 40 percent.
"It tells us that instead of dealing with unruly kids' misbehavior in school with a trip to the principal's office, our schools are dealing with it with the police," Donna Lieberman of the NYCLU, told NY1 News. "We are sending the police in to treat our kids like criminal suspects which puts them right on the path from school to prison."
The numbers reflect the discriminatory policing strategy such as stop-and-frisk that the New York Police Department practices in African American neighborhoods.
A record number of Black people, 685,724, were subjected to the NYPD's discriminatory and illegal stop-and-frisk policing last year. During the first quarter of this year, already an astonishing 203,000 have been ensnared.
Critics contend Mayor Bloomberg's and NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly's police have a racially-biased attitude when it comes to dealing with Blacks and Latinos in this city; especially young males.
Last week top New York lawmakers called on U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to investigate the NYPD's Apartheid style Stop-and-Frisk practices.
With these alarming statistics, and the NYPD's history of killing unarmed Black men it's clear that the U.S. Department of Justice needs to intervene in the affairs of the NYPD to prevent the rights of New Yorkers from further being violated and to prevent the loss of lives of any more unarmed Black men at the hands of the very officers who are sworn to protect them.
On May 16, 2012 a federal judge approved a class action lawsuit against the NYPD, which charges that they have violated and continue to violate the fourth and fourteenth amendment rights of millions of New Yorkers on a daily basis.
Thousands of New Yorkers will gather on Father's Day, June 17th, 2012 for the "End Stop-and-Frisk Silent March Against Racial Profiling."
For more information, please visit www.silentmarchnyc.org. Amongst those calling for the march are National Action Network's Rev. Al Sharpton.
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In the two years since I ran for the Assembly, our state government in Albany has once again been a miserable failure and remains a cesspool of corruption. Two years ago nearly every candidate from Montauk to Buffalo was a self-proclaimed "Independent Reformer."
These charlatans promised to reign in the lobbyists and special interests, to institute independent redistricting and pass ethics laws to curb the corruption in Albany. None of that happened in the last session of the legislature.
Lobbyists and special interests still buy and own our politicians. Many times it's not the most informed candidates who win an election. It's also not the most well intentioned candidates who win elections.
Instead, most of the time it's the candidate who is best at selling his or her soul to the monied lobbyists and special interests who get elected. Once these rascals get to Albany, instead of writing and passing legislation for the betterment of their communities and our state, they push legislation and push contracts that support their financial backers.
Regarding independent redistricting, while in 2010 nearly every candidate signed former mayor Ed Koch's pledge to pass an independent redistricting law. Once they got to Albany, the same folks forgot their pledge and saddled our state with hideous, politically motivated districts for the next ten years.
Instead of having an independent commission draw district lines that are concise and compact and keep communities together, we once again have politically motivated districts that snake through and divide communities in order to protect the incumbent representative's re-election prospects.
The worst act of insult was the legislature's passage of a joke of an ethics law. The law did nothing to stop the corruptive influence of dirty money in Albany. No one cared to pass campaign finance laws to stop the corruption. No one cared to close the loopholes that monied interests use to bypass the current campaign finance laws. No one passed any laws to stop the revolving door between government officials and the lobbyists.
My suggestion to the winners of the 2012 state elections is to go to Albany and actually do something! I suggest you start with three important pieces of legislation.
1. It's time to pass real campaign finance reform that eliminates the stranglehold that lobbyists and special interests have on our politicians. Arizona, Maine and Connecticut each have enacted laws for the public financing of elections that have worked. It is time to create such a program for New York. It's time that politicians answer to the people that vote for them and not the people who finance their political campaigns.
2. While it won't help for until the next decade, Albany must pass an independent redistricting law now so that we don't have to deal with the political shenanigans that we witnessed this year.
3. Finally, Albany should pass an ethics reform bill that will include a truly independent investigative body and bars anyone on the state payroll from lobbying the state for a full five years after they leave the employ of the state.
I understand that these three laws will not fix all of the problems in Albany, but I believe they would be a good first step forward. It's time for the voters of New York to wake up and demand good government.
Until we make that demand, we will continue to have to live with do-nothing politicians that are puppets of the lobbyists and special interests, Albany will continue to be the cesspool of corruption it is and we will continue to get our nearly weekly press reports of some politician being indicted, convicted or sent off to a prison in an orange jumpsuit.
Steve Behar is a resident of Bayside.


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Portland school district reaches agreement over Title IX violations
Girls to have equal opportunities as boys in athletics
The U.S. Department of Education reaches a deal with Portland schools to give girls equal opportunities as boys to participate in athletics.
The Office for Civil Rights said a review under Title IX found girls were under-represented.
Officials with Portland Public Schools said they're now trying to level the playing field.
A lengthy review by the Department of Education found Portland public schools weren't giving girls equal athletic opportunities as boys.
"They are looking at participation rates, male-to-female ratios, facilities, making sure there is equal access," Deering Athletics Administrator Mel Craig said. "Title IX is about equal access."
Part of the compliance includes the addition of girls' volleyball at Portland and Deering high schools beginning in 2014.
"What we found is our female participation was a little lower than our males, so in order to comply with Title IX, you look for those opportunities to create that for your female athletes," Craig said.
The agreement also ensures all practice facilities and locker rooms match those for boys.
Craig said nothing will be taken away within her athletic department. It will instead involve a reallocation of funds.
Some parents said they're pleased with the decision.
"I think girls deserve just as much as boys, and they work really hard at it, and to recognize them is really, really awesome," Deering parent Suzanne Hirsh-Wright said.
"If they are adding women's volleyball, I think that is great," Deering parent Gustin Kiffney said. "It is a great sport, and the girls will have a great time."
The Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights will continue to monitor the Portland School District to make sure it's complying with the terms of the agreement.


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