Email on reboot

[Brian Fahrlander]

Bart Silverstrim wrote:
> Is there a best-practices recommended way to have a 7.04 ubuntu server 
> email a specific address if it reboots or is restarted?  Emailing output 
> from dmesg or a system log at boot time would be nice, but as long as 
> there was some notification of the restart with a timestamp it would be 
> useful.  I know there's fifty ways to do it, but I wondered what people 
> found to be the easiest and "best" way to do it.

    Probably in /etc/rc.local, at the bottom.  Something like

echo "System rebooted." | mail -S"Notice" username at yourdomain.com


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