Les Mikesell wrote:
On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 9:46 AM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Toralf Lund wrote:
<snip> > Obviously. But like I said, I was wondering if there was a "more > automatic" way directly supported by the distro. Like, maybe you could > somehow configure "gdu-notification-daemon" so that it would > > 1. Start automatically independently of logins. > 2. Redirect notifications to a different system. > <snip> Perhaps a milter to forward a logwatch email (which goes to root) if there's a line that has on it "Warning. Disk Filling up"?
I think logwatch only runs once a day. If something is being logged you can catch it immediately with swatch. And you can send a pop-up to an X session with 'send-notify' - with the usual assortment of ways to connect to remote sessions (along with the usual issues of having permission to connect to sessions that aren't yours.).
It does only run once a day. I wasn't sure just how frequently a user fills the filesystem, or how much might happen in one day. I am, please note, strongly prefer fire prevention to fire-fighting.....
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