** Description changed: Binary package hint: mdadm Anybody who cares about redundancy to use mdadm probably cares enough about redundancy to want being informed if redundancy is degraded. Debian systems do have at least local mail enabled and package mdadm asks for a mail address to notify during mdadm install. By default ubuntu system support no local mail and mdadm package was patched to suppress the debconf email question, without setting up mdadm --monitor to use wall or notify-send as an alternative. As informing a human is a serious data protection topic mdadm should depend on a package providing at least local mail services and/or use beep/wall/notify-send to get the message out. --- The monitoring facility of mdadm is very important to get notice if somthing goes wrong with your raid. So you can replace disks etc. ahead of a total failure. To send out notifications mdadm needs a sendmail command (MTA mail transport agent ). To deliver mail localy you need a mail delivery agent (MDA) Things like exim, postfix open network ports and are large and not easy to configure, but of course provide the sendmail command and delivery. If no MTA/MDA is installed, yes mdadm should pull in (require) one, maybe a replacement like esmtp + procmail (if they are supported) but not postfix on desktops. --- Workaround to set up local delivery for email send to "root" (to a user mailbox in /var/mail): #apt-get install esmtp-run procmail #echo mda=\'/usr/bin/formail -a \"Date: \`date -R\`\" \| /usr/bin/procmail -d %T\' >> /etc/esmtprc - #echo "root: <YOUR-USER-NAME-HERE>" >> /etc/alias + #echo "root: <YOUR-USER-NAME-HERE>" >> /etc/aliases #newaliases
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