Fist we need a shell script that does the checking:
ADMIN="admin@youradress.com"
ALERT=80
df -H | grep -vE "^[^/]|tmpfs|cdrom" | awk '{ print $5 " " $1 }' | while read output;
do
usep=$(echo $output | awk '{ print $1}' | cut -d'%' -f1 )
partition=$(echo $output | awk '{ print $2 }' )
if [ $usep -ge $ALERT ]; then
echo "Disk space alert: \"$partition ($usep%)\" on $(hostname) as on $(date)" |
mail -s "Alert: Almost out of disk space $usep" $ADMIN
else
echo "Drive \"$partition ($usep%)\" is has enough space left"
fi
done
Then as your system trys to mail you the alert and the mailutil is not install. install it using:
sudo apt-get install mailutils
Now configure mail using ssmtp
Install and configure sstmp
sudo apt-get install ssmtp
sudo nano /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf
Uncomment FromLineOverride=YES by deleting the #
Add those lines for using gmail as an email server
AuthUser=<user>@gmail.com
AuthPass=Your-Gmail-Password
mailhub=smtp.gmail.com:587
UseSTARTTLS=YES
now the script should be working
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