Email on reboot

[Brian Fahrlander]

Charles philip Chan wrote:
> 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.

    Yeah, but that won't fit in a pager display.  :>
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