Hi, thanks for info. I wonder how to email when system is going to shutdown ? Thanks in advance, regards, Rob. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Hamish" To: Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 4:22 PM Subject: Re: [SLE] Send email notification on system restart

Hi, For reboot, I have in my /etc/init.d/boot.local something like: echo "xxx server has rebooted" | mail -s "xxx server has rebooted" -r root@server.domain hansdp@mydomain.com Something similar in /etc/init.d/halt.local would work for shutdown, but only if the machine is shut down properly. If it's on a UPS with USP monitoring sofware running, I'm sure you can add something somewhere to warn you a couple of minutes before it goes down. -- Kind regards Hans du Plooy SagacIT (Pty) Ltd hansdp at sagacit dot com

On Wed, 6 Apr 2005 15:22:33 +0100, you wrote:

On Wednesday 06 April 2005 14:46, Robert Rozman wrote:

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Hi,

I wonder what is easiest way to notify system restart over email...

Thanks in advance,

regards,

Rob.

nice and easy is to put it in your crontab:

myhost> crontab -e (this opens up vi as your crontab editor, on a new line put: @reboot mail -s restarted me@myemail.com < /dev/null ) thats it, every time you reboot it will mail you

Hey Hamish, thanks! I never knew the @reboot capability in cron - useful trick! Mike- -- Mornings: Evolution in action. Only the grumpy will survive. -- Please note - Due to the intense volume of spam, we have installed site-wide spam filters at catherders.com. If email from you bounces, try non-HTML, non-encoded, non-attachments.