Thank you to all who replied to my mail. I basically went out, and grabbed the Filesys::DiskFree module, and incorporated it into a daemon script. Thanks so much...
-James P.S. Incase anyone wants to see the finished product, take a look below. Thanks! #!/usr/bin/perl -w # Local to main these are the variables I will need... @dirs = ('/','/boot','/home','/src','/usr','/storage'); $maxsize = "0.9"; # Initalize the Filesys::DiskFree package use Filesys::DiskFree; $size = Filesys::DiskFree->new(); $size->df(); # Initalize the POSIX package.... use POSIX qw(setsid); # set the script to be a daemon.... &daemonize; # Start the loop for the daemon.... while(1) { # Parse through my directories... foreach $basedir (@dirs) { $total = $size->total("$basedir"); $avail = $size->avail("$basedir"); $percent = ($total - $avail) / $total; if($percent > $maxsize) { print "Woops! $basedir is bigger that $maxsize\n"; &mail($basedir); } } sleep 3600; # Check every hour....... } sub daemonize { my $log = "/var/log/filesize.log"; my $rootdir = "/"; chdir($rootdir) or die "Cannot change to $rootdir! Holy Shit! $!\n"; umask 0; open STDIN, '/dev/null' or die "Cannot open /dev/null: $!\n"; open STDOUT, ">>$log" or die "Cannot open $log for STDOUT: $!\n"; open STDERR, ">>$log" or die "Cannot open $log for STDERR: $!\n"; defined(my $pid = fork) or die "Cannot fork: $!\n"; exit if $pid; setsid or die "Cannot start new session: $!\n"; } sub mail { my $dir = shift(@_); my $host = `uname -n`; chomp($host); my $subject = "Spacedaemon: Error on $host\n"; my $from = "Spaceadmin\@feathertrip.net"; my $replyto = "james\@feathertrip.net"; my $maxsize = $maxsize; my $mailprog = "/usr/sbin/sendmail -t"; open(MAIL,"| $mailprog $replyto") or die "Cannot open $mailprog: $!\n"; print MAIL "From: $from\n"; print MAIL "Reply-To: $replyto\n"; print MAIL "Subject: $subject\n"; print MAIL "There is a problem with $dir on $host. It is larger than the maximum size allowed of $maxsize. Thank You!\n\n--Space Admin\n"; print MAIL "."; close(MAIL); } James Kelty Sr. Unix Systems Administratory The Ashland Agency [EMAIL PROTECTED] 541.488.0801 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]