[Info-vax] notification upon reboot

[pcoviello at gmail.com]

On Tuesday, February 26, 2013 3:20:07 PM UTC-5, jcri... at columbus.rr.com wrote:
> On Tuesday, February 26, 2013 1:42:59 PM UTC-5, pcov... at gmail.com wrote:
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> > I am looking for some ideas as to being notified of a system restarting, or it even crashing... I am on itaniums running 8.3 1h1. one suggestion is an email during the startup.  could work, unfortunately knowing the system was down for 5 hours would have been nice too. :-(
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> > Paul
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> You don't say what type of notification your looking for. Like the others have said, PING or SMTP. I've seen IA64 boot and crash so fast that the PING server can miss these. 
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> The use to be a a simple script shown in SYSMGR Class (circa '86:)) called CHECK_FOR_CRASH.COM that could reside in SYS$MANGER. It checked for the existence of a file written by SYSHUTDWN.COM (Simple Open file SYS$MANAGER;SITE_SHUTDWN.DAT, write "shut down at "F$fime"" , close file"
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> Check_FOR-CRASH sees that file exists, if yes assume clean shutdown. If not, you had a crash of some type. Then in that COM file you can email to DISTRO (including pager, cellphone.
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> Works for me since '86...

one cluster are comprised of rx8640's the other rx2660's