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From: mru@kth.se (Måns Rullgård)
To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: mdadm and email warnings
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 21:13:18 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <yw1xn0876dcx.fsf@kth.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: db.225a512.2d4965fb@aol.com

AndyLiebman@aol.com writes:

> Can anybody point me to information/how-tos that describe,
> step-by-step, how to configure mdadm to give me warnings about
> possible problems with my raid arrays? I realize that mdadm can
> monitor the status of the raids and send me a warning if something
> looks bad. But I'm fuzzy on how exactly to set this up.  Sorry, but
> the details aren't obvious from any of the manuals or help files.
>
> For instance, I see that I can enter an email address with the flag
> -m and the address. But do I need to specify a program that will
> send that email? It looks that way to me. Can I use KDE Mail to do
> the job? Or do I need to use something that doesn't involve a GUI?

I run "mdadm --monitor --scan --daemonise" and have put a mail address
in mdadm.conf.  Make sure sendmail or something compatible
(e.g. postfix) is installed.

-- 
Måns Rullgård
mru@kth.se

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  reply	other threads:[~2004-01-28 20:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-28 19:22 mdadm and email warnings AndyLiebman
2004-01-28 20:13 ` Måns Rullgård [this message]
2004-01-29  1:50 ` Neil Brown
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-01-29 11:32 AndyLiebman

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