Haha... This made me think of a funny and semi useful option. You could use text2speech like festival or preloaded wav files to speak events. "Warning Carp Master Down", "Danger, we're being port scanned!"
"New pfSense firmware please upgrade me." John -----Original Message----- From: Jonathan Woodard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 03, 2005 7:04 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [pfSense Support] why beep(1) when you can speaker(4) scott, is the beep script active, i upgraded to 0.86 which i'm assuming is the right one. when i rebooted i heard nothing. just wondering if/how i get it active, thanks :) Scott Ullrich wrote: >Hrm. Good point. I didn't honestly know you could echo items to >/dev/speaker to have it play sounds. Currently we are using beep >from the FreeBSD ports tree with a small wrapper script that plays >tones going up (machine is up) or tones going down (machine is on its >way down). > >Thanks to Seth Mos for putting together the script. > >Scott > > >On 10/3/05, Vivek Khera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>I was just browsing the kernel config files for pfsense and noticed >>that the speaker pseudo device is built in. Then I recalled the >>'beep' discussion... which got me to thinking: Why use beep when you >>can just echo strings into /dev/speaker and play lots of nice >>tunes? You could even make the theme music customizable :-) >> >> >> >>--------------------------------------------------------------------- >>To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> >> >> > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
