Email on reboot

[Charles philip Chan]

Bart Silverstrim <bsilver at chrononomicon.com> writes:

> 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 would put something like this:


,----
| dmesg | mailx -s "System Rebooted" <email_address>
`----

in /etc/rc.local.

Charles
 
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