Re: Auto Monitor New Users Or Directories

That is perfect! I was thinking of calling a script but was not quite sure
how to go about it.

Thanks!

On Sun, Nov 3, 2019 at 9:31 AM Henning Bopp (boppy) <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hi Lorne,
>
> I am using a `check program` for this (info: my Monit has 1 minute cycle):
>
> ```
> check program "dirsizer" path "/srv/monit/dirsizer" timeout 360 seconds
>   every 60 cycles # Runs once an hour
>   if status != 0 then alert
> ```
>
>
> while "/srv/monit/dirsizer" might be like:
>
> ```
> #!/usr/bin/env bash
>
> checkdir="/var/www/html"
> sizes=$(du -d 1 -t 1G -h "${checkdir}" 2>/dev/null | head -n -1 | sort -rh)
> chars=$(wc -c <<< "$sizes")
>
> if [[ "${chars}" -gt "1" ]]; then
>     echo "$(head -n10 <<< "$sizes")"
>     exit 1
> fi
>
> exit 0
> ```
>
> In this case, you will receive an alert if there is at least one
> directory with >= 1G of size. You will also get the 10 biggest
> directories above 1G in the programs output to review on the web front
> end AND included in the alert email (if the LIMITS allow it). Since
> Monit is configured to alert only on status!=0, you might even echo
> the sizes without an alert, so you can review them any time on the
> web-frontend of Monit.
>
> As this request seems to refer to some kind a shared hosting, you have
> to keep an eye on the execution time. In my scenario there are not
> that many small files that slow down du significantly. But with
> multiple CMS' installs, you might run into a timeout. Good thing:
> You'll receive an alert about this! ;)
>
>