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Beeps?

Greetings,

Does anyone know what it is in the init scripts that gives the beeps (bell) at shutdown, reboot, startup? I've looked at /etc/init.d/beeps but there's nothing obvious there.

I want to implement these beeps in Big Brother monitoring.

Cheers,
-zeek

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0 imported_Alex over 22 years ago

Maybe this is of any help to you.

http://www.cs.oberlin.edu/students/public/unixhelp-local/beep.html
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0 zeek over 22 years ago in reply to imported_Alex

Thanks Alex!

For this particular case, since I'm trying to echo off the console (logged in via ssh) I had to redirect to /dev/console

/bin/echo -n -e "\a" >/dev/console

There's also a way of changing the pitch and frequency but I've not worked with that yet.

I plan to use this as an audible alert for Big Brother. It'd be useless in a NOC, but perhaps very helpful for a home user.

Cheers,
-zeek
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