Disk Space Script

[kyosohma at gmail.com]

On Nov 24, 2:20 pm, "mostro... at gmail.com" <mostro... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Nov 24, 2:11 pm, kyoso... at gmail.com wrote:
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> > On Nov 24, 11:46 am, "mostro... at gmail.com" <mostro... at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
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> > > Hello all,
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> > > I would like to write a script in Python to email me when disk space
> > > gets below a certain value.
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> > > My first question (I'm sure of many) is how do get this output into a
> > > dictionary or list to index the values?
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> > > import os
> > > os.system("df -x cifs -x iso9660 | grep -E ^/dev | awk '{ print
> > > $1,$4 }'")
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> > > [What the output looks like]
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> > > /dev/sda3 15866012
> > > /dev/sda4 26126712
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> > > I would like to write code that compares /dev/sda* to a number (ex.
> > > 2000000 -> "2GB") and sends an alert if the indexed value is below it.
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> > > I'm a noob so keep it simple.
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> > > Thanks in advance.
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> > I don't know the Unix command for this, but I would just redirect the
> > output to a file on your system. See the following for more info:
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> >http://www.faqs.org/docs/diveintopython/kgp_stdio.html
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> > You could send the output to a variable and create a file-like stream
> > too. Either way, read the file (or stream) and then for each line,
> > split it on the space.
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> > Then you can do the compare and use the email module to email you the
> > result should it go over your specified amount.
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> > By the by, if you're using Python 2.4 or above, you should switch to
> > using the subprocess module rather than using os.system since the
> > latter is being deprecated.
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> > For more on file objects, see the docs:
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> >http://docs.python.org/lib/bltin-file-objects.html
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> > or there's this good article:
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> >http://www.devshed.com/c/a/Python/File-Management-in-Python/
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> > And the email module is explained quite well in the docs too:
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> >http://docs.python.org/lib/module-email.html
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> > Mike
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> Thanks for the info... I will do some reading...

If you need some more help, just let us know.

Mike