In message <200210202306.g9KN6rG11779@grok.beer.org>
	on Sun, 20 Oct 2002 17:06:52 -0600,
	Herb Peyerl <hpeyerl@beer.org> wrote:
>  > Since AT power supply has mechanical power switch, user must switch
>  > off power by hand finally.  In this case, beep in a shutdown script
>  > dose not help at all and kernel must notify user when it's OK to
>  > switch off.
> 
> You know, you can just stick a console on a machine or buy a serial
> console card... I just don't see any significant value in this
It might be a special case, but there is a situation:

- Not always stick a console (except some hardware trouble).
- Can't prepare a terminal for serial console.

User shutdown a machine from some Web based management system from
another room, but there is no space to put another peripheral.
(And this user isn't a specialist for administration.)

> home, have dinner, then say "ok, where was I?"  I don't need no stinking
> beep.
So, beep should be controlled by sysctl and default should be off.

-- 
Takahiro Kambe <taca@back-street.net>