Re: Beeping the Speaker
mickyb@es.co.nz (Michael Beattie) writes:
> Is it at all possible to beep the PC Speaker via bash? or perl... or
> whatever?
>
> What I want to do is set up my ip-up script, so that fetchmail is run from
> it, and there is some sort of notification when it is complete.. i.e. a
> double beep or something.
I put this in my ip-up:
/usr/bin/bplay /usr/local/share/ppp/interweb.wav
where bplay is from the bplay package, and interweb.wav is a Babylon 5
sample I downloaded from somewhere ("Commencing Interweb Link", from
`A Spider in the Web' IIRC).
You need a sound card working for this, of course.
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