Les Mikesell wrote: > On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 9:46 AM, <m.roth at 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..... mark