I would find it very convenient to be emailed everytime my linode was shutdown, rebooted, or booted with the time, also allowing me to choose a time zone. The reason I am requesting this is because I have multiple staff members with accounts that manage the linodes and they don't always record the actions.

have you given any thought to a cron job? using a time of "@reboot" will run every time it's booted.

very nifty, I didn't know that. Thanks

What works for me, to know of reboots (anyway), is to add

echo `/bin/hostname` rebooted at `/bin/date` | /bin/mail my_cell_phone_email

to the end of /etc/rc.local

That way I get paged on reboot.

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Stephen
(Linux user since kernel version 0.11)

I don't think that alerts you if a "hard reboot" is done. You cannot reboot via your Linode's shell, it will simply shut down the vps, anyways.

My 1 liner alert code doesn't alert on a _shutdown_, it alerts on successful startup. So it doesn't care how the reboot occured (hard/soft/crash/whatever). If you shutdown the VPS and never restart it then you won't know. If the boot sequence hangs, you'll never know. But once the machine is running again _then_ you know

What do you want from a 1-liner

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Stephen

(Linux user since kernel version 0.11)

If your server is in the middle of a crash, it probably doesn't have the time or resources to fire off an email...

On the other hand, Lassie will reboot your linode automatically after it shuts down for whatever reason, so in most case you'll get a notification once the reboot is complete.