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Date:      Fri, 8 Jan 1999 13:01:46 -0600 (CST)
From:      Licia <licia@o-o.org>
To:        Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>
Cc:        Alfred Perlstein <bright@hotjobs.com>, Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>, =??Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= <sos@sos.freebsd.dk>, obrien@NUXI.com, andyf@speednet.com.au, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: beep, beep, beep!
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.990108125814.1129A-200000@o-o>
In-Reply-To: <xzp1zl51tz6.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>

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Would this do what you want?

(patched against 2.2.7R /usr/src/sys/kern/kern_shutdown.c)
(I know it's not current, but it's what I have available at the moment :) )

On 8 Jan 1999, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:

> Alfred Perlstein <bright@hotjobs.com> writes:
> > On 8 Jan 1999, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> > > On a more serious note, I'd love it if Somebody (tm) patched the
> > > kernel to beep a couple of times after shutting down (when it displays
> > > the "press any key to reboot" prompt). Useful when doing maintenance
> > > on headless machines.
> > % grep -1 SHUTDOWN mykernel.conf
> > psuedo-device speaker
> > options	"PLAY_TAPS_ON_SHUTDOWN"
> > %
> 
> ISTR "pseudo-device speaker" was reaped by the Danes...
> 
> DES
> -- 
> Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no
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252,254c252,256
< 		printf("\n");
< 		printf("The operating system has halted.\n");
< 		printf("Please press any key to reboot.\n\n");
---
> 		printf("\007\n");
> 		DELAY(300000);
> 		printf("The operating system has halted.\007\n");
> 		DELAY(300000);
> 		printf("Please press any key to reboot.\007\n\n");
287c289
< 			printf("--> Press a key on the console to reboot <--\n");
---
> 			printf("--> Press a key on the console to reboot <--\007\n");

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