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Old 03-20-2012
Script to monitor directory size of specific users
Hi,

i am new to shell scripts, i need to write a script that can monitor size of directory of specific users. Please help.

Thanks,
Nitin
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Old 03-20-2012
The user's home directory can be definitively found in /etc/passwd.

The du -hs $DIRECTORY command will tell you the size of that directory.

the crontab -e launches an editor and allows you edit the cron table to schedule tasks.

Your script could be run under cron and forward an email using sendmail if any user is above a specified limit.

I suggest having a go at the script outlined above reading the man pages for the tools outlined and then letting us know if you hit any difficulties.
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Old 03-20-2012
monitor size of directories
Hi Skrynesaver,

Thanks for the reply. i want to write script which can display the directories created by the specific user and the size of the directory. for e.g if we give ls -ltr command it shows something like this~
ls -ltr
-rw-r--r-- 1 abc eng 396 Jun 13 2012 xyz
-rwxr-xr-x 1 def eng 202 Aug 15 2012 pqr
-rwxr-xr-x 1 ghi eng 201 Aug 15 2012 stu

Now i want to write a script which can monitor size used by users abc,def and ghi to create directories xyz,pqr and stu
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