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[Scott Blachowicz]

Another thing that can work depending on what you're trying to accomplish
is to use the wall program. I don't know what versions of UN*X this is
supported on, but on ours (HP-UX), you can specify a group name to
receive a broadcast message. I've got a script setup that checks for
available free space on different file systems. If it gets below a
threshold value for that file system a message is sent to the group
'sys'. I just add the regular logins for the people able to check for
and reclaim disc space to the 'sys' group. The script looks like this:

   #! /bin/sh
   if [ -z "$1" ]
   then tolerance=20000
   else
      tolerance=$1
      shift
   fi
   df_output=`df $* |
              sed 's/[()]/ /g' |
              awk '{if ($4 <= '$tolerance') {print}}'`
   if [ ! -z "$df_output" ]
   then
      ( uname -a ; echo "$df_output" ) | /etc/wall -g sys
      ( uname -a ; echo "$df_output" ) | remsh other_sys "/etc/wall -g sys"
   fi
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Scott Blachowicz
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