Re: [PATCH] mdadm: fix systemd service start up failure

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>]

On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 11:14:03AM +0800, changqing.li@windriver.com wrote:
> From: Changqing Li <changqing.li@windriver.com>
> 
> 1. mdadm: No mail address or alert command - not monitoring
> 
> with --monitor mode, mdadm needs a mail address and/or a program.
> This can be given with "mailaddr" and "program" lines to that
> monitoring can be started using.
> 
> fix by given a mail address, user can replace with a valid one
> when use.
>...
> +        sed -i -e 's/#MAILADDR root@mydomain.tld/MAILADDR root@mydomain.tld/g' ${D}${sysconfdir}/mdadm.conf
>...

Defaulting to try to send emails to an invalid address is worse than not 
having an email address configured.

Looking at the manpages I would have expected syslog-only monitoring to 
work if neither mailaddr nor program are configured.
If this isn't working, is this something upstream considers a bug?

cu
Adrian

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