Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 22:25:03 -0400 From: "Brad Bates" <bab@[204.199.163.200]> To: "Shaun" <sfinn@thecore.com>, "Justin Ashworth" <ashworth@esus.cs.montana.edu> Cc: <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Yes, but...Re: out of disk space Message-ID: <B0000005424@tangelo.lal.ufl.edu>
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Not to short-change your program Shaun, which I am sure works as advertised, but... Would not a cron job that does this every minute suffice in most cases? Am I missing something here (I don't do windows if I can help it)? A short and quick look/parse of df(1) via cron would probably do in most situations, and not load things down very much, no? Short of some "look-ahead" scheme for the file system in question I can't imagine response times exceeding a minute-by-minute review with alerts and such handling the notifications, and I would not want to think about writing the aforementioned look-ahead routine for all cases of a disk-write action. e.g. If file system used percentage exceeds threshold Then Send alert Else Sleep/exit/die Endif Would not a daemon would work as well? Is there not an old one laying around from System ? days out there? bab ---------- > From: Shaun <sfinn@thecore.com> > To: Justin Ashworth <ashworth@esus.cs.montana.edu> > Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: out of disk space > Date: Wednesday, June 18, 1997 7:50 PM > > On Wed, 18 Jun 1997, Justin Ashworth wrote: > > Has anybody ever heard of a daemon that would can notify a sysadmin via > > e-mail if the diskspace hits a certain percentage? I'd need to know > > immediately, so a cron job is out of the picture. > > If you are running X with the XView libraries installed you can > use my disktool program. It can be setup to run any program of your > choice or a script when any partition it is monitoring hits a user > defined critical amount of disk space available. > > You can check it out and download it from: > > http://www.thecore.com/~sfinn/disktool.html > > +------------------- http://www.download.net ----------------------+ > | Shaun M. Finn TechnoCore Communications, Inc. | > | sfinn@thecore.com P.O. Box 106 | > | (732)928-7400 FAX:(732)928-7402 Jackson, NJ 08527-0106 | > +------------------- http://www.thecore.com/ ----------------------+
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