great man, thanks :-)
the echo \a etc. never worked with me

I replaced "echo '.'" in /etc/rc.local with "echo 'C' > /dev/speaker"
so now I know when my headless server is ready booting up



Reyk Floeter wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 07:53:23AM -0700, Manuel Ravasio wrote:
>> Hello list.
>>
>> I have a small, trivial task I can't accomplish and I'm sure you guys can
>> help me in a second.
>> I'm creating some shell scripts for various administrative purposes, and I'd
>> really like to add some kind of command at the end of each in order to have
>> the pc speaker BEEP when the script is over.
>>
>> Is there a way to do so on OpenBSD 4.0/i386?
>> I've shuffled through MISC archives and FAQs, but I found nothing relevant...
>>
>>
> 
> man speaker(4)
> 
> for example,
> # echo 'CDEFGAHO>C' > /dev/speaker
> 
> reyk

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