: so why would you want the machine to beep? maybe you won't hear it.
Maybe not, but it's about the only external effect I can think of generating
when the OS is halt'd and the kernel is spinning idle. No keyboard to
flash LEDs, no monitor to display messages, no APM to power down the hardware
etc etc. If I'm expecting a machine to be down, I can place my ear near the
case and strain to hear a beep :-) I know it'll be beneficial in my working
environment :-)
: just ifconfig down your network devices as the last step in your
: shutdown scripts. you can poll the status of the machine by just pinging
Not sufficient - the network being down is not a guarantee of all processes
having been terminated and the filesystems unmounted.
Anyway, yesterday I sent out my 2.0.35 patch. Today I'm looking at 2.1.131,
which has changed a little (it's a lot cleaner!) and I'll try to patch
on that :-)
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