Re: requried warnings don't seem to be working

[Bas van der Vlies]

Allen,

 Is your /var a different filesystem then your root filesystem? If yes
 then try:
         /var freespace=25% force=true

The force option disable some checks that cfengine does before calculating
the freespace.


On 20 Sep 2002 11:05:01 -0600
"Bettilyon, Allen" <allen@about-inc.com> wrote:

> Hello,
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> I'm trying to use cfengine to warn me if key local disk points fill up. 
> I'm using the required directive, and it looks like this:
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> required:
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>    any::
>         /       freespace=25%
>         /var    freespace=25% 
>         /home   freespace=25%
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> However, it doesn't seem to be doing anything.  I forcibly filled /var
> to over 80% on one my servers, and I've never seen any warnings issued. 
> I've also tried doing:
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>         /var    freespace=25% define=var_almost_full
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>       ....
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>       shellcommands:
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>          var_almost_full::
>               "/bin/echo var is almost full"
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> And still, never saw the shellcommand run.
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> I am running the latest 2.0.4 release on linux.
> 
> - Allen
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