[SATLUG] auto-reboot server

[Alex Bartonek]

after talkin to Al....

service network restart

lol..I'll try that before the whole reboot thing.

Is there a way to get your IP that the outside world
sees?  (whatismyip.com) All from a command line?


--- Alex Bartonek <bartonekdragracing at yahoo.com>
wrote:

> 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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