https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=767155 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=767155#c2 --- Comment #2 from Christian Boltz <suse-beta@cboltz.de> 2012-06-21 00:19:52 CEST --- The SR was declined with reason "cron already recommends smtp_daemon., so do not include sendmail" - so let me paste the explanation I used to reopen the SR (it's more verbose and detailed than the bug description): That are two totally different things: a) /etc/cron.daily/mdadm - which obviously needs cron if you expect it to run (and cron needs a way to send out mails of course) b) the built-in function in mdadm to send out mails on failures (for example when an array gets degraded) - this works independent of the cron job. As I wrote in bnc#767155 mdadm seems to call sendmail itsself - see strings /sbin/mdadm | grep sendmail for a rough confirmation, or check the source if you are interested in the details. In other words: Both cron and /usr/bin/sendmail are needed by mdadm, but they are two totally different and independent requirements ;-) BTW: # strings /sbin/mdadm | grep -A3 sendmail /usr/sbin/sendmail -t From: %s To: %s Subject: %s event on %s:%s -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.