Re: mdadm mail option configuration

On Thu, 30 May 2002, Neil Brown wrote:

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I've tried this and maybe I'm missing something. I've set a 5 second
interval for checking and I only got one mail - notifiyng me about
a failure.

Yes, that's right.  One failure, one email.  I'm not in the business
of spam.

I see, I thought it would mail on every status change - as in 'rebuild
started', 'spare active', etc.

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Now I'm not sure whether mdadm is supposed to send mail on every check? Or
is it sending mail just when a BAD thing happens?

Exactly.

OK; that's fine.

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PS: The PROGRAM was started more often (I think three times).

That's quite possible.
   Once for  Fail
   Once for  RebuildStarted
   maybe some RebuildNN
   Once for  SpareActive

Yup, that's exactly how it was. :)

Thanks, D.