Re: Minor request for enhancement: "beep on halt"
tzanger (tzanger@ubercool.ml.org)
Thu, 10 Dec 1998 11:05:16 -0500 (EST)
> Nowadays a lot of Linux systems are used "headless" for single task jobs
> (eg mail relay, print server) where no console or backup is really required.
> Occaisionally they need to be powered down, but without a console it's really
> hard to tell when the kernel has halt'd. So how about the busy while(1);
> loop on halt having the ability to beep once a second (or whatever) so that
> the admin knows when the kernel has finally halted...
I don't know what others do, but I just do a shutdown -r and listen for
the BIOS beep.
Andrew
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