On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 12:45 PM, Rolf Fokkens <rolf.fokkens(a)orange.nl>wrote:
Hi,
Ik accidentally discovered that my software RAID5 array was degraded: one
of the three disks had been kicked out of the array.
It appeared that disk /dev/sda1 had been disabled 5 days before! I was
totally unaware of the problem, which is odd.
syslog shows the moment the array got into trouble:
2010-02-23T17:10:31.974066+01:00 home07 kernel: ata1.00: exception Emask
0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen
...
What surprises me is the fact that the system didn't inform me (except for
the syslog messages) that there was something seriously wrong, It should
have done so by alarming popups in X, or whatever.
Probably I just misconfigured something, but maybe Fedora has no software
installed (or available) to alarm the user about these serious events.
Any suggestions?
Install logwatch, set it to automatically send email to root daily, then
look at
root's email once a day.
--
Dale Dellutri