hachre / spacewarner

Warns when disk space is dangerously low and sends notification mails.

SpaceWarner

Warns when disk space is dangerously low and sends notification mails.

Installation

• Step 1: Run the following commands:

cd /opt
git clone https://github.com/hachre/spacewarner.git
cd spacewarner
chmod a+x *.sh
ln -s /opt/spacewarner/spacewarner.sh /bin/spacewarner # Optional
cp spacewarner.dist.conf /etc/spacewarner.conf

• Step 2: Edit /etc/spacewarner.conf and choose whether you want warning mails at all and if so which backend to use.
• Step 3: Test the mail setup by running spacewarner --mailtest. You should receive a simple test mail.
• Step 4: Check whether your devices are correctly shown by running spacewarner. Entries marked FAIL will cause a mail notification to be sent to you.
• Step 5: Put SpaceWarner into your crontab by adding something like this:

PATH="/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin"
0 * * * * spacewarner --cron

Update

• Simply run the following command:

/opt/spacewarner/update.sh