Any way to test mdadm email alerts?

Any way to test mdadm email alerts?

[AndyLiebman]

Does anybody know if it's possible to test mdadm email alerts? Is there a way 
to see if the system really will send an alert of there's a problem (other 
than creating a problem and watching for an email)?

Also, does anyone know if it's possible to use Mozilla Mail or KMail (part of 
KDE) as the program that sends the mail, instead of using Sendmail (which 
seems terribly complicated to configure just for sending alerts). 

Andy Liebman

Re: Any way to test mdadm email alerts?

[Måns Rullgård]

AndyLiebman@aol.com writes:

> Does anybody know if it's possible to test mdadm email alerts? Is
> there a way to see if the system really will send an alert of
> there's a problem (other than creating a problem and watching for an
> email)?

Manually marking a disk as failed should trigger an email, but maybe
that counts as creating a problem.

> Also, does anyone know if it's possible to use Mozilla Mail or KMail
> (part of KDE) as the program that sends the mail, instead of using
> Sendmail (which seems terribly complicated to configure just for
> sending alerts).

You can't.  You can install postfix instead of sendmail.  The
configuration of postfix is a little less cryptic.

-- 
Måns Rullgård
mru@kth.se

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Re: Any way to test mdadm email alerts?

[Wim Vinckier]

Hi Andy

Quoting AndyLiebman@aol.com:

> Does anybody know if it's possible to test mdadm email alerts? Is there
> a way 
> to see if the system really will send an alert of there's a problem
> (other 
> than creating a problem and watching for an email)?

I don't :-(

> 
> Also, does anyone know if it's possible to use Mozilla Mail or KMail
> (part of 
> KDE) as the program that sends the mail, instead of using Sendmail
> (which 
> seems terribly complicated to configure just for sending alerts). 
> 

I don't know which linux distribution you're using but mostly there are
some easy mailserver in the distribution or there is an easy way to
configure sendmail/courier/exim or whatever you want to use.  If you only
want to deliver localy, you can have a look at "deliver".


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Greetings,

Wim Vinckier.