[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi. I have a problem: When my machine is rebooting/shutdown, I have set up 
> a rc-script that sends a mailalert to the administrator that the machine 
> has been rebooted. But the machine makes the reboot so fast that the mail 
> never gets send. Any ideas to solve this little problem?

Make it send the mail as the first action in executing the shutdown script
(before it kills any processes, switches runlevels, etc).  Then insert a
30-second delay in the script.

Charles
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