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[capnqwest]

Hi,

I'm relatively new to Linux and have a problem with some servers spontaneously rebooting under almost no loads with nothing at all in messages. I suspect hardware but five servers on two different switches has me puzzled.

I'm trying to keep from manually checking for reboots (grepping for 'syslogd startup succeeded') so I wanted to write a small shell script to automatically e-mail me when this event is written to messages.

I'm struggling with the syntax. Should I do this with a cron job? Anyone have any canned scripts they can share?

[Eglis]

just add a like like this in your rc.local file and it should do the trick.

echo "Hi, i'm sorry to say that : ServerXYZ has rebooted again for no reason" | mail -s "ServerXYZ Rebooted" your@address.email