RE: [PLUG] System Bell - Beep!

["zeek" <zeek@sparklehouse.com>]

Right on! It's the redirect to /dev/console that does it. As for different
tones, I remember coming across something that does this --also in an earlier
gnome setup?

Thanks for all your suggestions.


Cheers,
-zeek

Sparklehouse Media and Technologies
http://sparklehouse.com



> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-admin@lists.phillylinux.org
> [mailto:plug-admin@lists.phillylinux.org]On Behalf Of epike
> Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 10:32 AM
> To: plug@lists.phillylinux.org
> Subject: Re: [PLUG] System Bell - Beep!
>
>
> Try this, it works for me (this is 5 bells).
>
> When your'e able to make the speaker ring different
> tunes pls let me know, I could use it (my server's
> also headless)
>
>
> /bin/echo -e -n "\a" > /dev/console; sleep 1;
>     /bin/echo -e -n "\a" > /dev/console; sleep 1;
>     /bin/echo -e -n "\a" > /dev/console; sleep 1;
>     /bin/echo -e -n "\a" > /dev/console; sleep 1;
>     /bin/echo -e -n "\a" > /dev/console; sleep 1;
>
>
>
> e.pike
>
>
> On Tue, 10 Jun 2003 22:10:01 -0400
> "zeek" <zeek@sparklehouse.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > Greets PLUGgers,
> >
> > Does anyone know how to ring a system bell, a beep w/o additional
> software? I've
> > tried:
> >
> > echo -n -e "\a"  and  echo -n -e "\007"
> >
> > but neither of these are working --even for systems which ring
> bells on other
> > calls.
> >
> >
> > I want to work this into a BB monitoring alert.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > -zeek
> >
> > Sparklehouse Media and Technologies
> > http://sparklehouse.com
> >
> >
> >
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