mdadm email alert question

[reggler]

Hi There,

I have two software RAIDs working perfectly fine, these are:

cat /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [raid1]
md1 : active raid1 sdc7[1] sdb7[0]
   238340224 blocks [2/2] [UU]

md0 : active raid1 sdb6[0] sdc6[1]
   244139648 blocks [2/2] [UU]

unused devices: <none>
root@reg-desktop:/mnt/media/Albums#

They seem to work fine but i can't get the email alert going that I would like to get when something goes wrong and on a regular basis (once a week would be fine!). I've done some googling but I haven't gotten further than adding my email to mdadm.conf like

MAILADDR [email]my.email@gmail.com[/email]

Then when I try to make a test I get following:

mdadm --monitor --scan --test
mdadm: excess address on MAIL line: [email]ron.eggler@gmail.com[/email] - ignored
sendmail: fatal: open /etc/postfix/main.cf: No such file or directory
sendmail: fatal: open /etc/postfix/main.cf: No such file or directory

How do I get things going?

Thanks,
Ron

[Snowhog]

Re: mdadm email alert question

Do you have postfix installed and configured?

[reggler]

Re: mdadm email alert question

Do you have postfix installed and configured?

installed yes, configured no - trying to figure out how i can do this the easiest way - any suggestions?

[Snowhog]

Re: mdadm email alert question

Postfix Documentatin

[reggler]

Re: mdadm email alert question

Postfix Documentatin

Well, I've tried to follow this how to: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Postfix but

dpkg-reconfigure postfix

gives me differenrt options than mentioned in this tutorial... diving into above docu now...