Package: mdadm Version: 3.4-4+b1 Followup-For: Bug #850180 The DAEMON_OPTIONS bit of this is trivially corrected with this patch:
--- mdmonitor.service.orig 2017-09-26 00:54:25.491632797 -0400 +++ /lib/systemd/system/mdmonitor.service 2017-09-26 00:54:29.047611746 -0400 @@ -10,4 +10,5 @@ DefaultDependencies=no [Service] -ExecStart=/sbin/mdadm --monitor --scan +EnvironmentFile=-/etc/default/mdadm +ExecStart=/sbin/mdadm --monitor --scan $DAEMON_OPTIONS -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.1 APT prefers stable APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'oldstable'), (490, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages mdadm depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.61 ii libc6 2.24-11+deb9u1 ii lsb-base 9.20161125 ii udev 232-25+deb9u1 Versions of packages mdadm recommends: ii exim4-daemon-light [mail-transport-agent] 4.89-2+deb9u1 ii kmod 23-2 mdadm suggests no packages. -- Configuration Files: /etc/cron.daily/mdadm changed [not included] -- debconf information excluded