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From: Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au>
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Subject: Re: Is the technique described in this article do-able with
To: brett@lariat.org (Brett Glass)
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In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20020208225248.026f08c0@localhost> from "Brett Glass" at Feb 08, 2002 10:53:34 PM
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In some mail from Brett Glass, sie said:
> 
> http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1824/sam0201d/0201d.htm

I believe that when you "halt" FreeBSD the whole OS halts.
When you see the "press any key to rebot" message, no more
activity is happening.

One question though, how do you generate log information?

Personally, I think of this as a 'misfeature'.

Cheers,
Darren

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