Email on reboot

[Brian Fahrlander]

Adam Funk wrote:

> Put a line like this in your crontab:
> 
> @reboot   dmesg | mail -s 'Reboot!'  bart at example.com
> 
> This takes advantage of the Debian extensions to the crontab format.

     Ooh...cool.  Is this part of Upstart, of which I've heard a lot? 
I've been waiting to learn more about that; maybe now's a good time to 
search for it.
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