The script should check if it can send emails and not make it a mandatory dependency.
I think mpt-status users mostly want to check the raid status as part of existing health check systems which send notifications themselves. Trying to install this "simple" tool on a webserver front-end and having to install a mail server seems too much. On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 11:09 AM, Steffen Joeris < [email protected]> wrote: > Because the init script sends out emails? > > Why should we need to install a mail server in order to check the > > consistency of our raid arrays? Please remove the bsd-mailx dependency. > > > > > > -- System Information: > > Debian Release: 5.0.2 > > APT prefers stable > > APT policy: (500, 'stable') > > Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) > > > > Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-6-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) > > Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) > > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash > > > > Versions of packages mpt-status depends on: > > ii bsd-mailx [mailx] 8.1.2-0.20071201cvs-3 A simple mail user agent > > ii daemon 0.6.3-1 turns other processes into > > daemons ii libc6 2.7-18 GNU C Library: > Shared > > libraries ii lsb-base 3.2-20 Linux Standard > Base > > 3.2 init scrip ii mailx 1:20071201-3 Transitional > > package for mailx ren > > > > mpt-status recommends no packages. > > > > mpt-status suggests no packages. > > > > -- no debconf information >
