Re: requried warnings don't seem to be working

[Mark . Burgess]

Could somebody write a FAQ on this??

People are asking all the time.

M

On 24 Sep, Bas van der Vlies wrote:
> Allen,
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>  Is your /var a different filesystem then your root filesystem? If yes
>  then try:
>        /var freespace=25% force=true
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> The force option disable some checks that cfengine does before calculating
> the freespace.
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> On 20 Sep 2002 11:05:01 -0600
> "Bettilyon, Allen" <allen@about-inc.com> wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> - Allen
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