On Wed, 30 Jan 2002 22:55, I. Forbes wrote: > > > 1) has anybody got a 'deb' of the latest lilo, back-ported onto > > > potato. I am looking for one to use on my "stable" machines? > > > > http://www.coker.com.au/lilo/ > > Thanks very much. It almost looks like you put this together in > response to my request.
Yes. > > > 2) has anybody written a nifty script which can be run by crond to > > > read /proc/mdstat and send off e-mail if something is not > > > healthy. I know this can't be too tricky, but any contributions > > > to save "re-inventing" the wheel would be appreciated. > > > > I think that there's a package in woody for that, I can't seem to find it > > at the moment though. > > I see there is mdctl, as well as mdutils, raidtools2, and raidtools > available in woody. All seem to have overlapping functionality and > only one of them can be installed at a time. > > mdctl seems very new and appears to have a "monitoring" function. That must be what I was thinking of. > Up to now I have been using raidtools2, this is available in potato > and woody. I am cautious to use mdctl as it is very new, > documentation is a little sparse and it is not available on potato but > in the long run I guess this will be the preferred utility. > > Has anybody had any experience with these tools? I had a quick look at mdctl, discovered that it is short on documentation, so much so that I found it difficult to get it to do anything. Then I discovered that mkinitrd doesn't support it (which was not a great surprise). So I'll probably look at it again when mkinitrd supports it. As long as it conflicts with raidtools2 and I need to have raidtools2 installed to be able to install a kernel and have it boot I can't use mdctl. -- http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ Bonnie++ hard drive benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/postal/ Postal SMTP/POP benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/projects.html Projects I am working on http://www.coker.com.au/~russell/ My home page -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]