Re: beep unconditionally

2002-06-22 Thread Dan Jacobson
Do you mean something like this: --- thing.sh --- sleep 3 echo -e \\a --- thing.sh --- # nohup ./thing.sh No I mean something like $ echo ./thing.sh|at 2:12 pm and having it ring a bell instead of sending a flashing/beeping letter bomb, and all with standard tools of course. --

Re: beep unconditionally

2002-06-21 Thread Dan Jacobson
How kind of you all to offer your beep and ditty solutions, I will have to try them next time I break out the 8 woody CDs. However your suggestions of print(1) and echo(1) do not fill the bill as I want a way to get the little speaker to beep due to #2: 1. with standard tools 2. from a batch

Re: beep unconditionally

2002-06-21 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, Dan Jacobson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How kind of you all to offer your beep and ditty solutions, I will have to try them next time I break out the 8 woody CDs. However your suggestions of print(1) and echo(1) do not fill the bill as I want a way to get the little speaker to beep due

beep unconditionally

2002-06-20 Thread Dan Jacobson
How does one get a beep unconditionally from that little speaker be it from a batch job or whatever. Assume I can give a valid $XAUTHORITY. I used to do the below, but now: $ echo -e \\a /dev/console bash: /dev/console: Permission denied Now only root can make it beep. Without resorting

Re: beep unconditionally

2002-06-20 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Thu, 2002-06-20 at 00:39, Dan Jacobson wrote: How does one get a beep unconditionally from that little speaker be it from a batch job or whatever. Assume I can give a valid $XAUTHORITY. I used to do the below, but now: $ echo -e \\a /dev/console bash: /dev/console: Permission denied

Re: beep unconditionally

2002-06-20 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, Dan Jacobson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How does one get a beep unconditionally from that little speaker be it from a batch job or whatever. Assume I can give a valid $XAUTHORITY. I used to do the below, but now: $ echo -e \\a /dev/console bash: /dev/console: Permission denied Now

Re: beep unconditionally

2002-06-20 Thread Steve Juranich
How does one get a beep unconditionally from that little speaker be it from a batch job or whatever. Assume I can give a valid $XAUTHORITY. I used to do the below, but now: $ echo -e \\a /dev/console bash: /dev/console: Permission denied Now only root can make it beep. Without

Re: beep unconditionally

2002-06-20 Thread James Cameron
On Thu, 2002-06-20 at 17:13, Alex Malinovich wrote: apt-cache show beep And then there's apt-cache show morse for when you really what the machine to tell you what's wrong through the speaker. ;-) Friends of mine have an ip-up.d script for their 56k modem that lets them know it is time to hit

Re: beep unconditionally

2002-06-20 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 02:13:07AM -0500, Alex Malinovich wrote: On Thu, 2002-06-20 at 00:39, Dan Jacobson wrote: How does one get a beep unconditionally from that little speaker be it from a batch job or whatever. Assume I can give a valid $XAUTHORITY. I used to do the below, but now