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To: Artem Ignatiev <timon@memphis.mephi.ru>
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Subject: Re: Creating a ``Magic Button''
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Artem Ignatiev <timon@memphis.mephi.ru> writes:
> I thought that this will be useful feature - when system is almost dead,
> but syscons's still alive (and you have no debugger in kernel) try to
> minimize loss of data trying to sync your disks, and doing halt.

Ctrl-Alt-Del on the console will do what you want.

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