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From: geoff@desint.UUCP (Geoff Kuenning)
Newsgroups: net.news.b
Subject: Re: Inews vs. df
Message-ID: <239@desint.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 29-Jul-86 02:25:08 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul 29 02:25:08 1986
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In article <2400@phri.UUCP> roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) writes:

> 	About the title of this article: around here we have two programs
> we use a lot.  Inews runs every night and every morning I run df to see
> what the damage was.  Df usually loses. :-)

I used to have that problem, too, so I wrote the enclosed shell script,
inspired by /usr/lib/acct/ckpacct.  I run it with the following crontab line:

0,15,30,45 * * * * * exec /usr/lib/uucp/ckuucp 1000 500 1600 800 '11 / 10' 2>/dev/null

(I don't get compressed news;  for compressed news you will want '11 / 4' in
place of '11/10').

Don't forget to remove my .signature from the bottom.

#!/bin/sh
#
#	%W%	%G% %U%
#
#	Periodically check the amount of disk space left on /usr
#	If it falls below $1 blocks (500 default), kill any running uucico
#	as soon as its current temp file disappears.  If it falls below
#	$2 blocks (100 default), kill all running uucico's regardless of
#	whether the current temp file is complete.
#
#	The size of the news spool directory is also watched.  If the sum of
#	the sizes of the D.* and TM.* files in /usr/spool/uucp, subtracted
#	from the free space on NEWSSYS, is less than $3 (default is the
#	value of $1), a soft limit on uucico's is invoked.  Similarly, if
#	$4 (default $2) is exceeded, uucico's will be killed immediately.
#
#	$5 is a multiplicative factor that will be applied to the number of
#	blocks in D.* files.  This is intended to allow space for fragmentation
#	and archiving.  The factor must be expressed as a rational number.  It
#	must be quoted, and if it contains shell metacharacters they must be
#	escaped *inside* the quotes.  For example,
#
#	    "5 \* 3"