jacksonkr / inodes-emailer

Emails you that inodes are at 80%

This is a cronjob that sends out an email when inodes hit 80%

Contents

• main.sh - this is the script that runs weekly to check inodes and send emails

Dependencies

• sudo apt install sendmail from https://tecadmin.net/install-sendmail-on-ubuntu/

Installation

$ git clone https://github.com/jacksonkr/inodes-emailer $ chmod u+x inodes-mailer/main.sh

open $ crontab -e and add the following

0 0 * * 0 bash /location/of/inodes-emailer/main.sh

Make sure to open main.sh and change the email addres to the desired email

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Troubleshooting

Q. How can I test that the script is working? A. Change $1>80 to $1<100 and the script will always trigger the send mail command

Additional helps

If you get an email, here are some tips on how to troubleshoot further

• to list inode info with percentages df -ih

• to find folders majority of inodes are find / -xdev -printf '%h\n' | sort | uniq -c | sort -k 1 -n

• to clean out old php sessions (older then 360 minutes) find /var/lib/php/sessions/ -name sess_* -type f -mmin +360 -delete