I tend a service machine that mostly runs unattended, processing
work requests that are sent to its reader (email, actually, from
UNIX systems.)  Yesterday, someone complained that his request had
not been processed.  The service machine had crashed 32 days before!

I can't diagnose it from the spooled console log -- our site purges
spool files after two weeks.

So, I get a weird idea.  In PROFILE EXEC:

   CP DEFINE PUNCH ...  /* Not 00D */
   CP SPOOL ... to RSCS CONT

   Use NETDATA, etc. stages to create an email image addressed to
   me, and leave it in the CONT spooled punch.

When the server crashes, the punch will be closed and the
RSCS will deliver the email to me.

o Will this work?

o Is it abusive of system resources?

o Is there a better way?

Thanks,
gil

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