On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 12:49 PM, Chris Knadle <chris.kna...@coredump.us> wrote: > On Saturday, June 23, 2012 23:49:54, lina wrote: >> Kinda of funny, >> >> Dselect reported me that my /var has saturated. Indeed, 100%. >> >> My question is that how to set to let me know earlier when the var reached >> 98%. Kinda of dangerous huh? > > This is a common problem. If this is a box you're running KDE on I'd suggest > the freespacenotifier package. If this is a server (or doesn't run KDE) then
It runs with xfce4. > I'd suggest configuring the box such that you'll get email output from cron, > and then make a cronjob that outputs text only when the free space left on > filesystems reaches the desired "warning" threshold. I started to initiate a script, $ while [ df -h | grep "/dev/sda11 " | awk '{print $5}' > 90% ]; do sleep 1000 ; done mail l...@email.com bash: [: missing `]' bash: 90%: No such file or directory not work. Can someone recommend some build-in script which integrate the cron, so I can take it as template and learn from it. I don't know which one is the best fit, which also autorun everytime after reboot. > > I'm about to set up the same thing because there's a box I help administer > that also regularly runs into this problem. :-/ > > > -- Chris Thanks for all, > > -- > Chris Knadle > chris.kna...@coredump.us > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201206240049.36230.chris.kna...@coredump.us > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAG9cJmnNzOQBAP_oJ6m0BJQ5Aztkt6ez+RvpdFNX=1t5fgr...@mail.gmail.com