Hi, I'm looking to write something that will check all the various local and NFS mounted filesystems, and send an email to the user specified on the command line if the usage is over 70%, with another email (or perhaps just a different message) if it's over 90%. Before I get into it, should I even be trying to write this in Perl? Would the Bourne shell be better, or is there some clever Perl way to do this? I looked around, and didn't see any Perl snippets, modules, or scripts that do this, which led me to think it Perl might not be the way to go this time; checking filesystem usage seems like something useful and generic enough that if it were particularly easy to do in Perl, someone already would have. Any thoughts welcome.

In reply to Checking filesystems? by incarnadine

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