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PostPosted: Sat May 31, 2003 1:39 pm    Post subject: Notification script for IP and reason for booting Reply with quote

I administer a server that, when powered down for a day or 2, receives a new ip adres by DHCP.
Some times there a power failure or something in the weekends so the server won't be restarted for the next monday...

I created this script as an init script: When shutdown the server leaves a file in /etc/ and reboots. When it starts it reads this file to determine if the reboot was intentional an posts the ip adres of the machine as reported by the dyndns service. I'm thinking of just reading ifconfig, but then it won't work for NAT'ed machines

Code:
#!/sbin/runscript

depend() {
        need net
}

stop() {
   touch /etc/normalshutdown
}

start() {
        CURIP=`wget -q -O - checkip.dyndns.org | grep 'IP Address' | awk '{ print $4 }'`
   eend $? "External Access Failed"

        ebegin "Mailing Administrator about power up"

   echo To: ${ADMIN_EMAIL} >> /tmp/tmpnotify
   echo Subject: Server Start up >> /tmp/tmpnotify
   echo >> /tmp/tmpnotify
   if [ -f /etc/normalshutdown ] ; then
      rm /etc/normalshutdown
      echo "The system was halted as requested" >> /tmp/tmpnotify
   else
      echo "The system rebooted without the proper commands" >> /tmp/tmpnotify
   fi
   echo The servers ip adress is now: >> /tmp/tmpnotify
   echo $CURIP >> /tmp/tmpnotify
   cat /tmp/tmpnotify | sendmail -F"`hostname` Reboot" ${ADMIN_EMAIL}
   eend $? "Sendmail Failed"
   rm /tmp/tmpnotify
}


I called the script /etc/init.d/notify and then just throw a rc-update add notify default.

Enhancement tips are appreciated
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