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Old 17th August 2012
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Originally Posted by jggimi View Post
I don't know if sw2wolf will see any differences, since shutdown -h calls halt(8) anyway.
Agreed, & that was the point. sw2wolf had asked earlier:
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Originally Posted by sw2wolf
...what i want to know is whether or not the dmesg output contains information about the last time power down.
  1. Effective use of diff(1) would readily answer this question.
  2. Subsequent poking through the source would lead to understanding that halt(8) is the endpoint of both utilities.
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