Here's a challenge. Write a script in c shell or perl that monitors disk space and displays a message when any filesystem goes over 85%. Exclude mnttab, fd, and proc. Make the script able to be changed from the command line in order to change the monitoring value of 85% on any monitored filesystem. I've gotten about a third of the way there but can't get the script to work right past getting the percentage of each filesystem into a file. I was trying a while do loop with nawk to monitor the system but I am new to unix and haven't had much luck. Anybody with an idea would be much appreciated.

Give df a try. csh? Good luck with that. Personally I agree with this guy: www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/shell/csh-whynot/

William is right. Unless you are working under the contraints of homework, no one uses csh for scripting because it works poorly. #!/bin/ksh rm /tmp/dfk.txt echo "df -k output for `date` `uname -a`" > /tmp/dfk.txt i=1 while [ $i -le `df -k | grep -v proc | grep -v Capacity | wc -l` ] ;do if [ `df -k | grep -v proc | grep -v Capacity | head -n $i | tail -1 | awk '{print $5}' | sed -e 's/%//'` -gt 85 ] ; then df -k | grep -v proc | grep -v Capacity | head -n $i | tail -1 >> /tmp/dfk.txt fi ((i=i+1)) done if [ `cat /tmp/dfk.txt | wc -l` -gt 1 ] ; then cat /tmp/dfk.txt | mail user@host.com fi