chandu.isi@GMAIL.COM wrote back: > Thanks for your quick responses. > >Hi David, I also need 2nd one from " Do you just want a quick df? Or >do you want to pull out space usage for each user, and then mail that >user with a not about space usage?" so that I can send warning to the >users who are using more space :-)

So. What *exactly* do you want to do here? Do you want to look through a single directory tree, or several? One partition, or several? What rules for 'ownership' do you want to enforce - personal files, group ownership, ACLs, or what? Do you want to email all users, or only users with more than K% of the total space, or only users with more than X megs of space taken up, or only users who have used up N% of their allotted disk space? What SMTP server will this go through - xmail or sendmail or what?

And, most important of all, why do you want to do this in SAS? This sort of sysadmin task is why sysadmin-type languages and shells exist. I would do this in Perl, or in a shell script instead of using SAS.

Or else I would let the company sysadmins do it.

HTH, David -- David L. Cassell mathematical statistician Design Pathways 3115 NW Norwood Pl. Corvallis OR 97330

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