04-08-2005
Using cron would be difficult since it runs jobs on a schedule - reboots don't normally happen that way.
Put a startup script which emails you when the server reboots. Since you didn't post what OS or version you are running, I can't give you specifics of where the script should go (For Solaris in /etc/rc2.d or /etc/rc3.d would be a good place).
You would want it to start after the network is up and running so putting it as S99some-name should work (again, it matters on what your OS is).
Create S99serverup in /etc/rc2.d would send a email to your address at your domain with the hostname and reboot as subject. No internal message but you can change that with information placed into another file if needed.
#!/bin/sh
/bin/mailx -s"`hostname` reboot"
youremail@yourdomain.xxx < /dev/null
exit
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SEND-REMINDERS(1) User Contributed Perl Documentation SEND-REMINDERS(1)
NAME
Send-reminders - send email reminders for special occasions
SYNOPSIS
Send emails reminders set by users for special occasions.
DESCRIPTION
Email-reminder allows users to define events that they want to be reminded of by email. Possible events include birthdays, anniversaries
and yearly events. Reminders can be sent on the day of the event and a few days beforehand.
This script is meant to be invoked everyday by a cron job. It mails the actual reminders out.
When run by the root user, it processes all of the spooled reminders. When run by a specific user, it only processes reminders set by that
user.
OPTIONS
--help
Displays basic usage message.
--simulate
Does not actually send any emails out.
--verbose
Prints out information about what the program is doing, including the full emails being sent out.
--version
Displays the version number.
FILES
~/.email-reminders, /etc/email-reminder.conf
AUTHOR
Francois Marier <francois@email-reminder.org.nz>
SEE ALSO
email-reminder-editor, collect-reminders
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2004-2010 by Francois Marier
Email-Reminder is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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Email-Reminder is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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