CentOS - Jun 2008 - mdmonitor not triggering program on fail events

Hi,

Can anyone help me with this since I want to get it done "the correct
way"

I'm trying to make mdmonitor to execute a program when it detects a fail
event automatically.

Currently, from what I see, init is calling mdmonitor with these options

mdadm --monitor --scan -f

(note that the --program is not there)

and this is in my /etc/mdadm.conf

MAILADDR root
PROGRAM /root/program_2_run.sh

short of hacking the mdmonitor script to hardcode the program there, is
there an alternate, more elegant way?

Thanks.

No One has any clues??

On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 12:11 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Can anyone help me with this since I want to get it done "the correct
> way"
> 
> I'm trying to make mdmonitor to execute a program when it detects a
fail
> event automatically.
> 
> Currently, from what I see, init is calling mdmonitor with these options
> 
> mdadm --monitor --scan -f
> 
> (note that the --program is not there)
> 
> and this is in my /etc/mdadm.conf
> 
> MAILADDR root
> PROGRAM /root/program_2_run.sh
> 
> short of hacking the mdmonitor script to hardcode the program there, is
> there an alternate, more elegant way?
> 
> Thanks.
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Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> Currently, from what I see, init is calling mdmonitor with these options
> 
> mdadm --monitor --scan -f
> 
> (note that the --program is not there)
> 
> and this is in my /etc/mdadm.conf
> 
> MAILADDR root
> PROGRAM /root/program_2_run.sh
> 
> short of hacking the mdmonitor script to hardcode the program there, is
> there an alternate, more elegant way?
What's not elegant about that? Sure, an /etc/sysconfig/mdmonitor would
probably have been better, but it scans the config file for MAIL and
PROGRAM being in it and would stop otherwise.

Ralph
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On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 10:11 +0200, Ralph Angenendt
wrote:
> Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> > Currently, from what I see, init is calling mdmonitor with these
options
> > 
> > mdadm --monitor --scan -f
> > 
> > (note that the --program is not there)
> > 
> > and this is in my /etc/mdadm.conf
> > 
> > MAILADDR root
> > PROGRAM /root/program_2_run.sh
> > 
> > short of hacking the mdmonitor script to hardcode the program there,
is
> > there an alternate, more elegant way?
> 
> What's not elegant about that? Sure, an /etc/sysconfig/mdmonitor would
> probably have been better, but it scans the config file for MAIL and
> PROGRAM being in it and would stop otherwise.
Yeah, it scans for either mail OR program being in there but for some
obscure reason, (or perhaps I just don't get how it works) the PROGRAM
to be ran isn't being called out by the mdmonitor init script and I'm
not sure why.

The only thing which I can see is that the option --program is not
mentioned