Luke Mewburn lukem@cs.rmit.edu.au writes:

This is *damned* annoying. With 2500 students all hammering one of my filers (a F330 in this case), we generally get /etc/messages.?

Yep, we see the same thing here. Here's a trivial Perl script I run the end of the week autosupport mail through which boils the messages portion down to a more readable form. It certainly could be made to do more sophisticated tricks. Here's the output:

----------------- ==== Quota exceeded ==== achervin bdowling csaia frodo jack138 jeffno johan jsl santana stellato

==== Tree quota exceeded ==== proj

==== Unknown messages ==== Sun Mar 28 00:00:06 EST [asup_main]: System Notification mail sent Sun Mar 28 01:00:01 EST [raid_scrub_admin]: Beginning disk scrubbing... Sun Mar 28 02:36:03 EST [consumer]: Scrub found 0 parity inconsistencies Sun Mar 28 02:36:03 EST [consumer]: Scrub found 0 media errors Sun Mar 28 02:36:03 EST [consumer]: Disk scrubbing finished... Mon Mar 29 00:24:09 EST [tn_login_0]: Login from host: amber Mon Mar 29 19:23:03 EST [isp2100_main]: Disk 0a.18(0xfffffc0000be06f0): opcode=0x2a sector 0 not ready - Drive spinning up (2 4, 1) Mon Mar 29 19:24:00 EST [isp2100_main]: Disk 0a.18(0xfffffc0000be06f0): request failed after retry #20 Mon Mar 29 19:24:00 EST [raid_stripe_owner]: Write on data disk 0a.18 in volume proj, RAID group 0, failed; reverting to degraded mode. Mon Mar 29 19:24:04 EST [raid_stripe_owner]: Write on data disk 0a.18 in volume proj, RAID group 0, failed; entered degraded mode. Mon Mar 29 19:24:04 EST [raid_stripe_owner]: One disk is missing from volume proj, RAID group 0. A "hot spare" disk is available and the missing disk will be reconstructed on the spare disk. -------------

And here's the script: ----------- #!/usr/local/bin/perl

# parse netapp autosupport mail and show it to us nicely

use Text::Wrap;

while (<>){ last if (index($_,"===== MESSAGES =====") > -1); }

while($_ = <>){ next if /[statd]/; next if (index($_,"last message repeated") > -1); next if (index($_,"../common/ndmpd/comm.c") > -1);

if (/uid\s(\d+).*exceeded on volume (.*)/){ $user = ((exists $users{$1}) ? $users{$1} : $users{$1}=getpwuid($1)); $volume = $2; $quotabloat{$user} = $volume if (!exists $quotabloat{$user}); next; }

if (/tree quota exceeded on volume (.*)/){ $treebloat{$1}++ if (! exists $treebloat{$1}); next; } push (@unknown,$_);

} close(<LOG>);

print "\n==== Quota exceeded ====\n"; print wrap("","",join (" ",sort keys %quotabloat)),"\n"; print "\n==== Tree quota exceeded ====\n"; print wrap("","",join (" ",keys %treebloat)),"\n"; print "\n==== Unknown messages ====\n"; print @unknown; -----------------

Hope this is helpful.

Respectfully, David N. Blank-Edelman Director of Technology College of Computer Science Northeastern University