On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, Jeff Byrkit wrote: > # mdadm --follow --program /etc/handle-mdadm-events --delay 1 /dev/md0 > > where handle-mdadm-events is (culled from previous posts): > > echo $* > logger -p kern.crit -t RAID $* Does your script have a #! line at the top, for example: #!/bin/bash You could alternatively use: # mdadm --follow --program='/bin/bash /etc/handle-mdadm-events' --delay=1 /dev/md0 > but I never get anything at my terminal or in the log. If I don't use the > --program, it gives me: Don't forget to make sure /etc/syslog.conf has an appropriate entry too. > anyone have any ideas? can I do --program "echo $*" ? just to get it to do > something? Yeah, but you don't need $* and you should use the full path to echo. # mdadm -F /dev/md0 -p/bin/echo -d1 --- Derek Vadala, derek@cynicism.com, http://www.cynicism.com/~derek - 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