Why not just put "alias df='df -P'" in your scripts instead of a wrapper?
----- Original Message ---- From: Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, February 4, 2008 2:59:02 PM Subject: Re: [brlug-general] [SAGE] df breaks scripts This may be true: "People who shortened device to dev might not think that '/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00' is a sane device name." However, that's a default that Red Hat/CentOS uses when doing LVM so it would be nice if the df on Red Hat/CentOS handled it well. :) The problem with Filesys::DiskSpace is that it doesn't address the core issue here: Most existing scripts expect df to act in a certain way.. So far, the only solution we've been able to come up with is a wrapper for df that forces -P. -- Puryear Information Technology, LLC Baton Rouge, LA * 225-706-8414 http://www.puryear-it.com Author, "Best Practices for Managing Linux and UNIX Servers" http://www.puryear-it.com/pubs/linux-unix-best-practices Identity Management, LDAP, and Linux Integration willhill wrote: > People who shortened device to dev might not think > that "/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00" is a sane device name. > > Have you looked at perl's Filesys::DiskSpace? I ran into it here: > > http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/howto-write-perl-script-to-monitor-disk-space.html > > A similar dissaster happened to g77, where the print output was automatically > line broken to 80 columns. This broke every loop formated code. I'm not > sure how that one turned out because I've done everything in C since. > > On Monday 04 February 2008 10:43 am, Dustin Puryear wrote: >> But I think you're missing the point. Since days of yore, people have >> generally used 'df' with the assumption that it had sane output by >> default. ;) > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
