On Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 02:55:43PM -0700, Jason Thorpe wrote:
> 
> On Monday, April 21, 2003, at 02:32  PM, Greywolf wrote:
> 
> >Default action while the machine is up and in multi-user mode is...to
> >do nothing.  The keyboard power button is typically only effective from
> >the PROM level unless you map it otherwise.
> 
> The front-panel power button powers off the machine, period.  It's 
> quite nice for the OS to try and do something graceful in this case.
> 
> In NetBSD, the keyboard power button currently does nothing.  I forget 
> what the default behavior in Solaris for the keyboard power button is.

In solaris9 it's nothing as well

> 
> I would say that the keyboard power button should continue to *default* 
> to doing nothing, unless some wsconsctl option is set for it to do 
> something.

Yes

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