@g.jacobse said:
I rant that over in my mind, and it seemed that if the reboot failed, you would not get any type of email.
If the reboot failed to run completely (like the system was down, cron had crashed, things were frozen) you would get no email either. You are making the system report on itself with is not good.
That's why the system should reboot itself (no way around that) but the monitoring of whether it is up or not should be done externally.