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Subject: Re: out of disk space
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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.

i haven't heard of one, but it seems easy enough for
a simple sh "daemon".

something along the lines of (run in background)

#!/bin/sh

toofull=90

while [ 1 ]; do sleep 60

	pfull=`df | grep /dev/partition | cut -c 44-45`
	if [ $pfull -gt $toofull ]; then echo TOO FULL!; fi
done
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