On Sunday November 28, robin-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Guy wrote: > > I use mdadm's monitor mode to send me email when events occur. > > Guy, > > I've been meaning to write this for a while... > > I tried monitoring once but had a problem when shutting down as the > arrays were reported as "busy" because mdadm --monitor was running on > them. I guess it needs to be killed earlier in the shutdown process. That bug was fixed in mdadm 1.6.0 NeilBrown From the ChangeLog: Changes Prior to 1.6.0 release ... - Fix bug in --monitor where an array could be held open and so could not be stopped without killing mdadm. ... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html