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From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
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To: Sean Hamilton <sh@planetquake.com>
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Subject: Re: Beep after shutdown
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Sean Hamilton wrote:
> The fact that FreeBSD does not beep after it finishes shutting down has
> costed me dozens of hours of reformatting inconsistent filesystems, and
> probably all sorts of little bits of data loss which I'm just unaware of.
> I've tried to hack this into the kernel myself, without much luck. The best
> I got it to do was start beeping but never end, since the timer related
> stuff had already been killed off. This wound up being more irritating than
> useful.
> 
> Anybody clueful want to point me in the right direction?


I agree.

If it could beep after powering off, that would be useful, too.

I ...er ...uh ...what the heck are you talking about?

-- Terry

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