RE: [cobalt-users] Quota Notification 550

[Brian Rahill <cobalt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 12:37 PM 10/28/2003 +0000, you wrote:
> Might be worth having a look into the swatch.conf and see if anything is
> wrong there, as I understand it this is the routine that runs every 15 min
> to check things like disk quotas and other server based things. So it pretty
> well must be something either in there or something called by it which has
> ceased operations.

Well it looks like the file:
/usr/sausalito/swatch/bin/am_disk.pl

handles the emailing, etc. and it looks like it's coded to only send mail 
once the site goes over quota.

Here's the top of the file:
#!/usr/bin/perl
# $Id: am_disk.pl,v 1.9.2.5 2002/03/20 09:03:21 uzi Exp $
#
# Email is sent to admin for everyone who is over their quota
# at 4am.
#
# Email is sent to users the instant they are over their quota,
# at most once a day.
#

This isn't very helpful since if the users are over quota they won't get 
the mail anyway....it bounces because it can't write to their mailbox....

On my 4r it emails when users get close to being over quota like 90% or 95% 
-- which is much more helpful since we can increase their quota or delete 
some files before disaster strikes.

It looks like their is code in there to check percentages but just not to 
fire off the email at these percentages.
if (!defined($ENV{red_pcnt})) {
    $ENV{red_pcnt} = 95;
}

if (!defined($ENV{yellow_pcnt})) {
    $ENV{yellow_pcnt} = 90;
}

Wish I knew a bit more perl and could fix this, but it looks like a stock 
Raq550 thing. I'm surprised I haven't heard other complaints about this.

Brian