Re: Minor request for enhancement: "beep on halt"

Tygrys (tygrys@tygrys.eu.org)
Tue, 15 Dec 1998 08:29:01 +0100

Krzysztof Halasa wrote:
>
> miquels@cistron.nl (Miquel van Smoorenburg) writes:
>
> > If you want the system (non-slackware) to beep when it's safe to turn
> > off the power, either hack the halt (8) binary, or edit the appropriate
> > script that calls halt. In Debian that's /etc/init.d/halt
> >
> > The only thing you cannot do is beep in an endless loop, but you can
> > beep 4 times and then call halt.
>
> When the /etc/rc.d/init.d/halt is executed, all the filesystems are
> unmounted and net interfaces are down. How about beeping in a loop,
> _instead_ of calling /sbin/halt?
That's not a good idea on some architectures...

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