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The best way would be to add it to the system start up script. /etc/rc.d/rc.local or something of that sort. If you can't do that, then you can go the cron route.
Linux (don't know about Solaris) has a command called 'last' that will have a line that shows when the system was rebooted. You can narrow the last output by the user which under Linux is 'reboot'. So 'last -1 reboot' would give you the last time the system was rebooted.
The other thing you need to do is keep track of the last reboot time that a notification was sent for, so that you don't double send.
HTH
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