On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 11:27:45AM -0500, Richard Humphrey wrote:
>
> I am using LM 7.1 in a dual boot scenario with Win98 (for my wife) and
> she usually reboots into Windows and checks her email, then restarts
> the machine so Linux will boot back up. There are times that I need to
> get access from work, and I would like to know if there is a way to
> set it up so that the machine will email me when it boots back up to
> let me know it is online again. Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Richard
See "man mail" for how to do automated mail in scripts. Write your
script. Then call it from /etc/rc.d/rc/local.
Alternatively, assign it one IP address as a W9x machine, and another as a
Linux box, and ping the Linux IP address as needed.
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