Detect boot/reboot and run action

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Anybody have a good way to run an action on every startup/reboot?

My first thought is to look for uptimes under 1 hour, and set the action re-apply after an hour. But that won’t catch the reboots in the hour after the first boot (or multi-reboots in following hours).

Any other ideas on ways to get a cross-platform boot-up trigger/signal?

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I’m doing something like that. You can have the action set a client setting, and compare the effective date to boot time.

Relevance:

not exists setting "lastruntime" whose (effective date of it > boot time of operating system) of client

Action:

setting "lastruntime"="{now}" on "{now}" for client Do other stuff

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I’ve also used something like this, which works with an action set to “reapply whenever it becomes relevant again” and is cleaner because it doesn’t require a setting. It’s something close to this, but maybe not completely right:

not exists action whose (last active time of it > boot time of operating system)

I recall there is a strict way to check that, but I’m not at a console now. I’ll update when I have a chance later today.

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Thanks Jason! Can’t wait to see what the one-liner is like!

Chris

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if not exists last active time of action then true else last active time of action < boot time of operating system

(I suspect my earlier post would probably work as well but I haven’t tested it).