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.TH SMART-NOTIFIER 1 "Dec 25, 2005"
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.SH NAME
smart-notifier \- dbus service and graphical disk health notifier
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B smart-notifier
.I "[options]"
.br
.SH DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the
.B smart-notifier.
.PP
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\fBsmart-notifier\fP is a dbus service/client pair. If run without options, it
starts a dbus service and listens for messages send by the client (normally
started from a script in /etc/smartd/run.d). These messages are then displayed
on the screen of the user running the service. This program is designed to be
run inside a user's graphical desktop session.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.B \-\-notify
Run as a dbus client. Message text is read from stdin.
.SH AUTHOR
smart-notifier was written by Brian Sutherland <jinty@web.de>.
.PP
This manual page was written by Brian Sutherland <jinty@web.de>,
for the Debian project (but may be used by others).