Forgot to say thank you for the suggestions regarding disk space alerts. I went with the roll your own option of df, cron and Zenity for a GUI alert. Works really well.
- Chris 2009/9/29 Alan Pope <a...@popey.com>: > 2009/9/29 Chris Weaver <ch...@resonancefm.com>: >> Does anyone have a system or app in place where they get the Windows style >> "disk is nearly full" alerts? I realise it's an old bug/idea >> http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/17590/ but there doesn't (to my limited >> knowledge) seem to be a viable solution. >> > > The latest version of Ubuntu (9.10) which is in development and due > out at the end of next month already has this. I have had popup alerts > to tell me that my built in and usb disks/sticks are getting full. > Quite handy :) > > One revealed a bug in the printing system which causes many GB of logs > to be written to /var/log. So very useful. > >> It easy enough to manually check the disks with du but we have many here at >> the studio. >> > > Another option for remote monitoring is something like gkrellm. I used > to use this although many now prefer tools like conky. With gkrellm > you run gkrellmd on each machine you want to monitor and gkrellm (gui > app) on the central machine. It can connect to the remote machines and > alert you of all kinds of things - disk space included. > > Cheers, > Al. > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ > -- Chris Weaver Production Manager Resonance104.4FM resonancefm.com +44 (0)207 407 1210 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
