On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 16:26:46 +0100, Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > If your disk is beyond remapping, the smart daemon (on by default) will > send you a nice mail saying that your disk is going bad. This is a good reason I'd like to see trying to move towards a rootless install with an sudo-like controlled administrator. I'm not sure how many users, especially the first time users, know about the sorts of emails like smart's that can be sent to root user. It would be really keen if these sorts of mails could be sent to a normal user account in home lan situations without the user even knowing that smart is actually there and needs to be reconfigured to send mail to non-root. Also is this sort of thing a candidate for the mystical 'notification bubbles' concept? -jef