Thanks, That was easier than what I was thinking of doing. :-)
----- Original Message ----- From: Pavel Urban <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, January 7, 2007 2:37:45 AM GMT-0600 US/Central Subject: Re: Monitor the number of files in a directory? Edward A. Muller wrote: > Any idea on how I can use monit to monitor the number of files in a directory? > > Mailman for some of our customers goes bonkers sometimes and just stops > processing mail in the $MAILMANHOME/qfiles/out directory. Restarting mailman > fixes the problem. I'd like to use monit to restart Mailman should the number > of files in the qfiles/out directory reaches something like 50 or 100 files. > #!/bin/bash LIMIT=your_limit NUM=`ls -1 directory |wc -l` if [ $NUM -lt $LIMIT ] then touch /var/tmp/flagfile fi run this script via cron (for example, every 20 minutes) and do timestamp check on /var/tmp/flagfile (or any file you decide). -- *********************************************************************** Pavel Urban ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) O2 system disaster Telefonica O2 Czech Republic, a.s. - www.cz.o2.com *********************************************************************** Vegetables should not operate electronic equipment. Computer Stupidities, http://rinkworks.com/stupid/ *********************************************************************** -- To unsubscribe: http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/monit-general -- Good Luck & God Speed, Edward Muller Owner - Interlix, LLC 417.862.0573 http://interlix.com -- To unsubscribe: http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/monit-general
