Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 11:45:57 +0400 From: Anton Shcherbinin <useperl@fastmail.fm> To: "Jack L. Stone" <jackstone@sage-one.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Script Question Message-ID: <1436526062.20020508114557@fastmail.fm> In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.20020507182214.011c7318@mail.sage-one.net> References: <3.0.5.32.20020507182214.011c7318@mail.sage-one.net>
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Wednesday, May 08, 2002, 3:22:14, Jack L. Stone wrote: > Am running FBSD 4.5 and would like to come up with a simple script that > could monitor a file size, say 2MB and then send an email notice once 2MB > is reached. I would use cron to run it on intervals. You could add the following line to your crontab (to be run e. g. every midnight): 0 0 * * * /usr/bin/perl -lwe 'print "The file grew!" if -s "/path/to/the/file" > 2_000_000' -- Anton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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