Re: [cobalt-users] root login failure and /var at 100%

["Steve Werby" <steve-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Brent Sims" <bs@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> There's a very easy way to keep on top of things in order to
> avoid the full directory problem. Simply create a shell script that
> does a df every day and run it from cron - the server admin will get
> a report each day of the disk usage:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> echo "Disk Usage Report"
> echo " "
> /bin/df -h
> echo " "
> exit
>
> Just open a file named something like disk_usage.sh in vi or
> pico. Enter the above listed 6 lines, save the file, make it
> executable (chmod +x disk_usage.sh) and set up a crontab to run it.

For those that want to take it a step farther, you can add lines to the
script that check the % usage for the /var partition and delete or move a
specified file (or files) if the partition's usage is above a certain
threshold.

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Steve Werby
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