Cameron Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Sure. Put this:
>
> echo "Your current disc consumption:"
> du -s $HOME/.
>
> in /etc/profile. However, if they have a lot of files this will take a long time
> and annoy everyone.
>
> | If not
> | Is is possible to displays /home disk space with some welcome message?
>
> Sure:
>
> echo "Current space utilisation in /home:"
> df /home
>
> That's much faster, and probably more useful anyway.
How is that more usefull for showing a users usage?
Here is one way to do it <untested so use at your own risk>
Run a cron job each night that logs the users disk usage to a file
with somethin like this
(Assumes all directories under home are users directories and that
you've created a directory at /var/log/usage with 755 permissions)
cat usage.sh
#!/bin/sh
for user in `ls -d /home/*/`;do
du -sh $user >$user/.usage
chown $user:$user $user/.usage
done
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
As root add someting like this to roots crontab:
30 01 * * * /path/to/usage.sh
Then put something like this in /etc/profile
echo "Your disk usage is:"
cat $HOME/.usage
Each users .usage file will get overwritten with the new info each
day.
If that isn't often enough run the cron job more frequently.
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