On Tuesday 22 December 2009 17:25:55 debian-user-digest- requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: > > I had a problem with my (small) disk filling up and crashing my mail > > server. So, I wrote a simple perl script to take the output of 'df -h' > > and look for a % full that is greater than 97% and send me an e-mail if > > the % is greater than 97. I run the script daily from crontab. It works > > fine. > > > > Yesterday I downloaded an iso image (which brought the file system fill > > from 93% to 100% so that the mail server could not send me the e-mail > > warning. Is there another way to approach this problem (a different > > tool?)so that I can be notified BEFORE the file system is too full? > > If your mail server is important ( ;-) ), put your mails and/or all of > /var on a separate partition, maybe with quotas. > > Do the same for /home. >
As I have had those mouse syslogs filling up /var which cripples anything that touches logs, mail, runs, pids, in other words, everything. So a monitor like this would be very useful. The monitor would need to check partitions in a conf file and then take action if any are filled. In the case of /var, messaging, mailing, most anything will not work unless I set the limit low enough. But that's the whole point. Maybe post your perl. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
