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  From: Andrew Pullin <andrew@hotspurbgc.com.au>
  To  : Linux SA <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 02:41:14 +1000

Remote event messaging

Hi All,
    I am long distance administering a site in Melbourne and apparently they
are having trouble with instability, but I can't find any evidence.
Apparently they have to reboot the system regularly and this mythical
instability disappears. What I want to do is monitor how often they reboot
without going to the logs and trawling through them. My thought was to
simply automatically generate an e-mail everytime the system is rebooted
with a timestamp and a subject saying simply reboot. How would I go about
this? I suppose the easy way is just run a script during the boot process,
but where would I put it? Is it better to write a script in bash or perl (I
am a bit rusty on both). Are there any other ways?

    I also want to do the same thing when the ppp link to the world drops
out and autoredials, and I want to lastly monitor when users dial in,
sending a connection time and a disconnect time. I would prefer to use a
similar method for each event. Your suggestions would be greatly
appreciated. TIA
    Cheers!
        Andrew.


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