Hello, James. On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 07:03:27PM +0000, James wrote: > Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de> writes:
> > > > Every time I shut down my gentoo system with "shutdown -h now", it beeps > > > > at me. This is becoming steadily more irritating as the months go by. > > > > Just what is this beep supposed to be telling me? I _know_ I'm shutting > > > > the machine down. > > From a virtual console. Matthias has tracked it down for me, and it is > > hard coded in one of the C files building shutdown itself. I think I'm > > going to edit the source and rebuild it without the bleep. > Check out 'epatch_user' [1]. > This is exactly what epatch-user was design for. And > you get 'persistence' with this type of patch. Thank you, indeed. I have now created such a patch, not without one or two problems along the way. With it, emerge -1 sysvinit now works, and it generates me a shutdown which doesn't beep. :-) > In fact, this would be a perfect example to find it's way to the > gentoo wiki! Hmm. I'd have to moderate the language used in the patch for that. ;-) > Bravo, a frequent nuisance, the sounds, and folks could add lots > of patches to shut off differnet annoying sounds...... > Great Find there Alan... Thanks to all those who helped me along the way. > hth, > James > [1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki//etc/portage/patches -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
