$ rpm -ql beep-1.2.2-1mdk
/usr/bin/beep
/usr/share/doc/beep-1.2.2
/usr/share/doc/beep-1.2.2/CHANGELOG
/usr/share/doc/beep-1.2.2/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/beep-1.2.2/CREDITS
/usr/share/doc/beep-1.2.2/README
/usr/share/man/man1/beep.1.bz2

As can be seen above, there is an executable in /usr/bin/beep. There is a known
security issue with beep, and by default it can only be run by the superuser.
This is explained in the beep man page.

On Fri, 3 May 2002 03:27:00 -0400, Brian York <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Friday 03 May 2002 2:08 am, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
> 
> i downloaded the package and tried to install it and it was already installed 
> so i check for the command by using tab and looking for beep and nothing what 
> is the syntax for the program
> 
> > On Fri, 3 May 2002 01:21:59 -0400, Brian York <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > What would be a command to make the internal speaker beep?
> >
> > I think you have just answered your own question -- the package is called
> > 'beep', and it contains a command called 'beep' :)

-- 
Sridhar Dhanapalan

"Anyone who says you can have a lot of widely dispersed people hack away on a
complicated piece of code and avoid total anarchy has never managed a software
project." -- Andrew S. Tanenbaum, 1992, writing to Linus Torvalds.

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