Alan Hagge wrote: > Reggie Braswell wrote: > >> Taking the plunge and moving up to FC4. This time around I chose to >> go the software mirror path with two 80GB SATA disks. Carved it up >> with /boot on md0 and the rest via LVM as md1. Question I have for >> the group is the machine is sitting in an entertainment center with >> mythfrontend running all the time. Any tools or plugins for myth to >> monitor /proc/mdstat or something of that nature to check to see if >> you lost a drive etc... or is it that if you lost a drive the box is >> going to tank anyway so you will know no matter what? I have >> simulated a failed disk by powering off and unplugging the cable from >> the primary sata drive and it boots up fine from the secondary, but >> am a little leary to just yank power to one of the drives to see how >> Linux responds. Thanks... Regg >> >> >> > If I understand you correctly, the FC4 mdadm package already has a > tool. Check out /etc/rc.d/init.d/mdmonitor (which uses mdadm > --monitor). It sends e-mail, but you could probably tweak things to > use wall & friends to pop up something... > and you could also use monit.
I installed festival and have it speak to me if it's unwell... "Myth is down" "The server known as copper is down" "Copper is OK" All delivered in a nice scottish brogue. David _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
