Need a script that emails the disk utilization outputs every 15 minutes

[Dawit Worku]

Hi Everyone,

I need a script that emails the disk utilization outputs every 15 minutes. Any other way to do it besides scheduling it via cron?

[Tim Nelson]

##runs 5 sar status, emails output,sleeps for 15min, then repeats forever.

while true
do
sar -d 5 5 |mailx -s "Disk Stats" you@somewhere.com
sleep 900
done

[Steven Schweda]

> [...] besides scheduling it via cron?

Why _not_ use "cron"? Too simple? Too
reliable? Why exclude what is probably the
best available method?


> sleep 900

And, if the other work takes exactly no time,
then it'll happen every 900 seconds. Unless
the script dies for any reason at all.

[Dawit Worku]

Thanks Tim. It worked like charm

[Dawit Worku]

The reply worked great. It was exactly what I needed.