Re: Mdadm opinion request

Added linux-raid to recipients, as it should be in original message,
sorry for inconvenience.

On 28/09/2021 23:08, Jes Sorensen wrote:

On 9/28/21 5:28 AM, Kusiak, Mateusz wrote:

quoted

Hello all,
We've discovered an issue with mdadm monitor not checking if sendmail is
installed on the system. Software displays error:
     "/usr/sbin/sendmail: No such file or directory"
and continues to work.

We have two ways to use mdmonitor:
- system wide mode (--scan option); this require --mail or --syslog,
notifications are mandatory.
- container/array tracking mode; notifications are optional.

Providing wrong email does not stop mdmonitor, neither removing postfix.
There is a way to avoid mails in each mode, so why not make it
configurable globally? Any thoughts?

Mateusz Kusiak

Seems reasonable to me to make it configurable rather than implicit
enforce it in one mode and not the other.

Jes