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.TH SMARTNOTIFIER 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]"
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.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 formessages send by the client (normally started from a script in /etc/smartd/run.d). This messages are then displayed on the screen of the user running the service. This program is designed to be added to the session of the user.
.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).