On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 9:33 PM, Reindl Harald <h.reindl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Am 20.05.2013 22:27, schrieb Peter Robinson: >> You still have to configure it so doing a "yum install >> your-mta-of-choice" isn't hard and in fact in all environments I know >> of that have auto monitoring and alerting of drive failures configure >> it automatically as part of a kickstart or puppet deployment and use >> snmp rather than email to deal with that and have active alert >> systems > > you refer to enterprise environments > i live in both, real enterprise and SOHO > >>> if a disk dies it is nice to have it in syslog but >>> it is useless if you see it days later while a mail >>> from crond is more or less real time >> >> You still have to configure all of that and whether a MTA is installed >> automatically or not doesn't really make it work out of the box. > > you have *ntohing* to configure > you only need to edit *one line* in /etc/aliases > everybody who knows unix-like systems knows this So your telling me your still using sendmail? >>> until you watched the event in the syslog other >>> people have replaced the drive long ago, where i >>> work it takes 3-5 hours to get a spare drive >> >> Where I work the manufacturer ships a person with the new drive and >> they deal with it. It's a mute point though, auto alerting whether by >> mail or snmp needs other configuration of which a "yum install MTA" or >> adding of a MTA into a kickstart isn't exactly a hard task. > > nobody needs kickstart on single machines in a SOHO environment And if that's the case it's not hard to do "yum install MTA" either Peter -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
