[SATLUG] auto-reboot server

[Alex Bartonek]

Well my server is down at the house.  I get the 'I'm
alive' emails every few hrs so I know its running. 
Havent had any.. Is there another server?  Is it
cheating... ok, seriously..

So it doesnt have internet access.  This is a physical
machine now instead of a VMWare session (bought a
cheap $5 733mhz computer on base).  I know its powered
on because I saw it this morning..but maybe a reboot
would fix it.

Simple cron job running as root to:

1.  ping the outside world (yahoo.com or whatever)
2.  If #1 fails then call reboot_it.sh, else exit

reboot_it.sh:
1.  read file generated from #2 #3 below (there will
be dummy text files created when I initially design
this) to see if we've rebooted already today.  If so
theres no need to reboot again because there is a
problem that a reboot cant fix.
2.  write a keyword into a text file like "rebooted"
3.  write current date time to txt file
4.  init 6


Anything I'm missing?  Confusing as hell?

-Alex



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