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smartd fails to send an email

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Message #8 received at 75550 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: 45mg <45mg.writes <at> gmail.com>
To: Tomas Volf <~@wolfsden.cz>, 75550 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#75550: smartd fails to send an email
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2025 05:30:47 +0000

Hi Tomas,

Tomas Volf <~@wolfsden.cz> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I have tried to write a service type for smartd from smartmontools,
> however the bundled script fails.
>
> When the test (-m root -M test) is executed, some programs seem to be
> missing in the $PATH:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> Jan 14 01:34:19 localhost smartd[3138]: Executing test of <mail> to root ... 
> Jan 14 01:34:19 localhost smartd[3138]: Test of <mail> to root produced unexpected output (118 bytes) to STDOUT/STDERR:  
> Jan 14 01:34:19 localhost smartd[3138]: /gnu/store/ks6lnp8hssm9zkka47ysa4qp9xd9f8bv-smartmontools-7.4/etc/smartd_warning.sh: line 132: sed: command not found 
> Jan 14 01:34:19 localhost smartd[3138]: Test of <mail> to root: failed (32-bit/8-bit exit status: 32512/127) 
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

I've seen other package definitions deal with this problem by using
`substitute*` to replace executables specified in scripts, etc. (like
sed here) with the corresponding store paths. See 'light' in (gnu
packages linux) for an example.

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