Floating Point Arithmetic and Percentage Comparison in Ksh!

Hello again,

Today, we've got a somewhat heavy script. If you're an administrator, or just a concerned user, you've probably run into a situation where you needed to be notified if a file got too large. This is a fairly common concern if you're going to have to do lots of extra work if you don't get some fair warning before the file fills up the partition it resides on!

Below is a little something I whipped up to keep tabs on pretty much any file. It involves several concepts, which we'll go over in the future. These include, mailing out to users from within the script, watching a file's size and comparing it with an "expected" size and using the shell's limited integer arithmetic to evaluate size and comparative percentage with simulated floating-point decimals.

Below: The script. Over the next few days or weeks, I'll revisit some of the finer points involved here, as they require way too much space when dealt with all at once!





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#!/bin/ksh

#
# 2007 - Mike Golvach - eggi@comcast.net
#
# Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License
#

concerned_users="user1@xyz.com,user2@xyz.com"

if [ ! -f $db_file ]
then
(echo "Subject: Database File Missing!";echo;echo;echo "The file $db_file does not seem to exist!?";echo "From: root@xyz.com";for x in $concerned_users;do echo "To: $x";done;echo "Please check this out a.s.a.p. unless it is a known issue!")|/usr/lib/sendmail -t
exit 1
fi

db_file=/path/to/db.file
db_dusk=`/usr/bin/du -sk $db_file`
db_size=`echo $db_dusk|/usr/bin/awk '{print $1}'`
db_limit=2097152.20
let threshold=`echo 4 k ${db_size} $db_limit / p |/usr/bin/dc|/usr/bin/sed 's/\.//'`
threshold_pct=`echo $threshold|/usr/bin/sed 's/^\(.*\)\(..\)$/\1\.\2/'`

# Assuming 2Gb Crash Point - 2097152.2 Kb
# -- Start Warning At 85%

if [ $db_size -gt 1782579 ]
then
(echo "Subject: Database Approaching Maximum Capacity";echo "From: root@xyz.com";for x in $concerned_users;do echo "To: $x";done;echo "";echo "";echo "Database $db_file is currently at";echo "$db_size Kb";echo "This exceeds the 2Gb 85% threshold at ${threshold_pct}%.";echo "Please reduce the size immediately, if possible")|/usr/lib/sendmail -t
fi

Hopefully, this script will be helpful to you. I look forward to digging deeper into the specifics in future posts :)

, Mike

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