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From: emm@iczer-1.UUCP (Edward M. Markowski)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
Subject: Re: Getting rid of "disk almost full" message
Message-ID: <573@iczer-1.UUCP>
Date: 30 Mar 91 02:59:13 GMT
References: <1991Mar24.215823.17037@kpc.com> <20117@alice.att.com> <1991Mar27.195444.745@kpc.com> <1991Mar29.004838.856@ceilidh.beartrack.com>
Reply-To: emm@iczer-1.UUCP (Edward M. Markowski)
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In article <1991Mar29.004838.856@ceilidh.beartrack.com> dnichols@ceilidh.beartrack.com (DoN Nichols) writes:
>	Does anyone know whether smgr checks for absolute space remaining,
>or for a percentage of space remaining, as the warning in the /etc/profile
>does.?
>
>	I'd prefer a tunable absolute value, which was read from a file set
>up by the user, defining the number of free blocks at which he would get the
>warning.  It could do like cron, and check if the file has been modified
>since last read, rather than re-reading at each check.  I know that edf
>(which I use) gives a nicer report format, but if we have to have smgr
>running, can't we have it reporting according to the limits WE want enforced?

I do not know if don't think my first post about this got off this site.

I have not tried this yet, but it seems that it might work.  Rename
/dev/error to something else recreate /dev/error as a named pipe.  Write
a small program to read the error device and write the records into the 
named pipe.  If this will work the new program can be used as a filter
for the "disk almost full" message and any other for that matter.  I will
see if I can get something like this running and post results.

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