On 4 Jan, Jamie Wilkinson replied to: > >Every now and then something goes wrong with my Linux RAID, and some > >weeks or months later I notice that the RAID is running in degraded > >mode, and I take the appropriate steps. > > mdadm is the most awesome tool, if you're not already using it. Red Hat has > a mdmonitor initscript that runs mdadm in monitor mode, so you can get > emailed when raid events happen. See /etc/mdadm.conf on that distro.
Thanks, Jamie, I'll look into that - I couldn't find anything like that for my RH 7.2 (only one at home using RAID). BTW, I was amused that the only google ref I turned up to mdadm and RH 7.2 was this old post, by me to SLUG: http://lists.slug.org.au/archives/slug/2004/01/msg00440.html And reading the article on mdadm below, explains why probably I'm one of the few people still using the older raidtools, so my previous post may be of no user to anyone else on the planet. :-) http://www.networknewz.com/networknewz-10-20030113mdadm-A-New-Tool-For-Linux-Software-RAID-Management.html Grabbing the source RPM and compiling and installing from http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/source/mdadm/RPM/ was no trouble - now I'm just wondering, dare I change my existing working old raidtools raid system to use the better mdadm ...? hmmm. Probably better to decide at some other time than 2am. luke -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
