smartd.conf changes lost

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I've noticed that smartd doesn't monitor my drives. How do I get it to
look at and monitor my two SATA drives?

I added

/dev/sda -a
/dev/sdb -a

to the smartd.conf file. When I restart the smart daemon, the
smartd.conf file is rewritten without those two lines. The log file
indicates that smartd is not monitoring any drives:

smartd[3343]: Configuration file /etc/smartd.conf parsed but has no
entries (like /dev/hda)
smartd[3343]: Monitoring 0 ATA and 0 SCSI devices
smartd[3345]: smartd has fork()ed into background mode. New PID=3345.

I can see them manually through smartctl.

# smartctl -a /dev/sda
smartctl version 5.37 [i386-redhat-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-6 Bruce
Allen
Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family: Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 and 7200.7 Plus family
Device Model: ST3160023AS
Serial Number: 5MT0RRAN
Firmware Version: 8.12
User Capacity: 160,000,000,000 bytes
Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is: 6
ATA Standard is: ATA/ATAPI-6 T13 1410D revision 2
Local Time is: Mon Oct 22 07:56:52 2007 CDT
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled

# smartctl -a /dev/sdb
smartctl version 5.37 [i386-redhat-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-6 Bruce
Allen
Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family: Western Digital Caviar SE (Serial ATA) family
Device Model: WDC WD1600JD-00HBB0
Serial Number: WD-WCAL93183730
Firmware Version: 08.02D08
User Capacity: 160,041,885,696 bytes
Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is: 6
ATA Standard is: Exact ATA specification draft version not indicated
Local Time is: Mon Oct 22 07:57:54 2007 CDT
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled


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