Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 10 Dec 1998 11:05:16 -0500 (EST) | From | tzanger <> | Subject | Re: Minor request for enhancement: "beep on halt" |
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> 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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