[SunRescue] OBP coolness

Björn Ramqvist rescue at sunhelp.org
Fri Jun 1 00:05:00 CDT 2001


I definitly like the SGI Octanes... shutdown and power off system,
leaving it with a timestamp WHEN to power on. :-)

/Bjorn


Bill Bradford wrote:
> 
> On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 01:05:18PM -0400, James Fogg wrote:
> > A typo lead to a discovery. The OBP complained about my typo and said something
> > to the effect that the command "words" would give me a list of available
> > commands. Sure enough it did. One entry said "power-off"... Hrrmmm... lets see.
> > <type> power-off<end type> and #sound-of-drives-parking_and_silence#... it
> > powered off. Damn good thing I had dropped to single user and synced first.
> 
> I remember the first time I ran across a machine that could turn off its
> own power (was some ATX-formfactor PC).
> 
> "woah."
> 
> Then there's even the Netra T1, which can turn ON its own power.. 8-)
> 
> Bill
> 
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> Bill Bradford
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