>> Uhm, by that same train of thought, we should not have ddb.onpanic,
>> since after all it is only used once. :-)
> Heh, no, that realy is different.  Yoy may change it to on when you
> have console access and later back to off when you leave - and both
> changes could make a difference.

The same could be said of beep-on-halt control sysctls, with
approximately equal truth.

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