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Re: Beep-Beep



Try writing an .au file do /dev/audio ...much more fun.

            Oren



> Hi,
>
> I've found it usefull to make my serbver BEEP when happen
> some interesting events. So here  is ingenious script
> making PC beep!
>
> -----8<-----------
> #!/bin/sh
> while [ 1 ] do;
>   printf "\a"
>   sleep 2
> done;
> -----8<-----------
>
> Brilliant! BUT it beeps only when it is run on
> particular TTY. If it is run at background, it stops
> beeping when it's TTY dies.
>
> Question:
>   How to make a script BEEP on a host machine even
>   when it's TTY dies?
> Alexander Rier
> e-mail:  alexr@gezernet.co.il
> Tel:     972-3-5340807
>          972-52-442549
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