Re: detecting unscheduled reboot due to power failure
One way is for something that is executed during a shutdown to touch a
file somewhere. On bootup, one of the startup scripts checks for that
file. If it finds it, deletes it and knows that the last shutdown was
commanded. If the file does not exist, it assumes the last shutdown was
unplanned and sends you an email.
On Wed, 4 Nov 1998, Joe Chung wrote:
> I came home yesterday and found out my debian machine had been rebooted
> around noon for the first time in a long time. My wife denied everything, so
> I figured it was a power blackout or brownout that caused it, but nothing in
> /var/log tells me that the file systems were not unmounted cleanly. How do I
> know for sure that a reboot was unscheduled?
>
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