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Determine if system was powered off

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Name: Nicole
Date: January 17, 2003 at 07:04:38 Pacific
Subject: Determine if system was powered off
OS: SCO Openserver 5.x
CPU/Ram: variable
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I use uptime or who -b to determine last reboot. How can determine if the system was actually powered off when given the option to do so?


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Name: Frank
Date: January 20, 2003 at 05:10:18 Pacific
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Where is the different between "last reboot" and "powered off" ?
DO you have a possibility to skip the POST and/or BIST ?

Cheers Frank


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