🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <1992Nov6.034314.12741@csus.edu> eps@futon.SFSU.EDU (Eric P.  
Scott) writes:
> In article <1992Nov3.170233.2839@umr.edu> jlu@cs.umr.edu
> 	( Eric Jui-Lin Lu ) writes:
> >How shall I do to empty users' recycler whenever they logout/login?
> >Most of our users don't know (or forget) to empty their recyclers.
> >And it's untolerable in our env -- short of disk space.
> 
> We had a similar problem--lots of recoverable disk space tied up
> in recyclers and uncompacted mailboxes.  But we took a different
> approach: we opted to educate our users.
> 
> 
> Reminders don't hurt, so I wrote a LoginHook to display a Panel
> with a disk usage "meter" showing the same percentage _df_ would,
> and the actual amount free below that.  [The information comes
> from a statfs() call.]  Then a horizontal Box rule, and easy-to-
> follow instructions to encourage the desired behavior (see
> attached graphic).
> 
> The Panel only appears if the /Users filesystem is at least 60%
> full, and goes away if the user clicks the Panel's close button,
> the "OK" button in the lower-right-hand corner, presses return
> (i.e. the keyEquivalent), or after 20 seconds.
> 
> It worked--disk usage dropped dramatically within a few days.
> 

Cool idea!

Gordon

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