-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 25/08/07 11:33 AM, Kelly Jones wrote: > Nagios' check_disk plug-in gets confused when "df -k" reports negative > space remaining on a drive. For example, if df -k says: > > /dev/ccd0 567673758 524004492 -1744634 100% /partname > > nagios' check_disk says: > > DISK OK - free space: /partname 17592186042712 MB (-1% inode=97%) > > Is there a workaround here? Can check_disk be told to throw an error > if the remaining space *exceeds* a certain number? Can I tell it "if > you see more than 1 terabyte available, something is wrong [because > the machine in question doesn't have that much disk space], so report > an error"? > > (Unix, of course, reserves space for the root user, so negative space > remaining just means all the user space has been used up + then some)
What system are you using? My df command never returns negative values so I couldn't make a simple test case... This is likely a matter of using signed integers and/or checking properly the value. No need for a maximum value. Thomas -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFG0G4k6dZ+Kt5BchYRArjzAKCKisP/IctHT2RcrYX9wM1dr0dAZgCg0GD+ sAIntzj3Qdk2e6K7FTcwEy8= =3UkZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
