At 08:46 PM 29/05/2002 +1000, Neil Brown wrote: >You need white-space infront of the UUID= bits, as it is continuation >of the previous line... or did you suffer a mailer word wrap?? Yep, space was there (file generated by mdadm [using 1.0.0 src]). (Not used to using Windoze Eudora word wrap ;-) (haven't had time to install Debian): DEVICE /dev/hd*[0-9] /dev/sd*[0-9] ARRAY /dev/md1 level=raid1 num-devices=2 UUID=8e0114bb:e5b3a608:048bed2d:5fe33724 ARRAY /dev/md2 level=raid1 num-devices=2 UUID=434dd79d:0c046e9b:867e8d98:86bdb5da ARRAY /dev/md3 level=raid1 num-devices=2 UUID=9a9a2078:44c22d83:25a32457:db7e3783 ARRAY /dev/md5 level=raid1 num-devices=2 UUID=e3254469:34147651:c9298800:5a84cd06 ARRAY /dev/md6 level=raid1 num-devices=2 UUID=80c78ac7:c0f4442a:3dd6517d:57edc79e MAILADDR jhill@hrpost.com PROGRAM /usr/local/sbin/raidalert >Do you have a "/usr/lib/sendmail" or is it somewhere else on your >system? /usr/lib/sendmail is a link to /usr/sbin/sendmail (qmail) >> ------ >> Then, I just have an init script that runs: >> >> /sbin/mdadm -Fs --delay=600 & > >Why 600 (10 minutes)?? I would suggest 60seconds for normal operation >and 1 second for testing. Okay, changed. My choice was arbitrary, just assumed it would be reasonable -- I'm moving it on to a heavily loaded production server and the e-mail isn't constantly monitored so I assumed . . . . Appreciate the help. As my config is apparently okay, I'll look elsewhere for the problem. Thanks for a really good program. mdadm seems like a big step up for Linux software raid. >NeilBrown Jeff Hill - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html