Monitor Que Lengths

[Patterson, S R]

-----Original Message-----
From: Julian Field [mailto:jkf at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK]
Sent: 29 January 2002 16:56

> How about something like

> #!/bin/sh

> # Define this to be your maximum allowed mail queue length
> MAXLEN=300

> LSLEN=`cd /var/spool/mqueue.in && ls | wc -l`
> QUEUELEN=`expr $LSLEN / 2`

Better:  QUEUELEN=`find /var/spool/mqueue.in -name q*|wc -l`

> if [ $QUEUELEN -gt $MAXLEN ]; then
>   /sbin/reboot
> fi

Steve