Fwd: logwatch: zz-disk_space

Displaying free disk space only if it is below a certain threshold is
more in the spirit of Logwatch, not a bad idea.  I have some old
script on my ftp site that already does this I think.


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Tom Metro <[email protected]>
Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2007 15:29:01 -0400
Subject: logwatch: zz-disk_space
To: [email protected]

After a first time installation of logwatch, I noticed I was getting
daily reports of free disk space:

--------------------- Disk Space Begin ------------------------

  Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
  /dev/hda6             1.9G  1.8G   50M  98% /
  /dev/hda1              46M   24M   21M  54% /boot
  /dev/hda7             1.9G   60K  1.8G   1% /tmp
  /dev/hda8             105G   16G   84G  16% /data

  ---------------------- Disk Space End -------------------------

Which is nice, but I wondered if there was a configurable threshold for
usage, below which these messages would be suppressed.

I took a look at zz-disk_space.conf and services/zz-disk_space and
didn't see anything applicable. Am I correct in understanding that the
disk space information (if enabled) is displayed unconditionally?

Similarly, it appears the only thing LOGWATCH_DETAIL_LEVEL is
controlling is whether supplemental directories are also reported on.

I'd expect only file systems exceeding a configured threshold to be
displayed at the default LOGWATCH_DETAIL_LEVEL, and all file systems to
be displayed, regardless of threshold, at some high detail level.

I could contribute a patch for this, but it would be Linux specific.

  -Tom




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