How to capture Signal 15 /shutdown in UNIX

[LexMinimus]

I am trying to create a script which will capture the init 6 / signal 15 shutdown in Solaris and send an email reporting that the Unix server has gone down.

I have created a script which looks for the Signal 15 entry in the /var/adm/messages file and sends an email when found - this works fine but it is exppensive. I would like to find a more elegant solution capturing the signal. Anyone have any ideas?

Cheers...

 

[sackyhack]

Check out the sigtrap pragma. This would allow you to easily install a signal handler to send out your e-mail. The main program could just spend a lot of time sleeping.

http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.6/lib/sigtrap.html