Ugh. 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use POSIX qw(strftime);

my $raid_admin = "root@foo.bar";
my $raid_host = `/bin/hostname`;

@ARGV = qw(/proc/mdstat);
my @mdstat = <>;

## UNTESTED

exit if not grep m{ \[(\d)/(\d)\] } && $1 ne $2, @mdstat;
    
open(
    my $mail,
    "|/bin/mail -s 'RAID disk failure on $raid_host (".
    strftime('%Y.%m.%d-%H:%M').
    ")' $raid_admin"
) or die "Couldn't spawn /bin/mail: $!\n";
print $mail @mdstat;
close $mail;

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Something along these lines if you're gonna do it in Perl.

Makeshifts last the longest.

In reply to Re: raid array checker (mdstat) by Aristotle
in thread raid array checker (mdstat) by ArtemZ1

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