Re: door bell like sound effect

[songbird <songbird@anthive.com>]

gene heskett wrote:
> Greetings;
>
> odd request:
>
> Somewhere, for some unk reason, there is a sound file file that plays at 
> max volume, usually around 2 AM or slightly later, that is very similar 
> to the 40 yo doorbell in this house. A bing-bong sound that differs from 
> the real doorbell by maybe 5hz in pitch. Wakes me up, spoiling a good 
> nights sleep, maybe a dozen times a year an apparently random dates.
>
> To aid in finding it, what extension might that file be carrying to 
> indicate its a .snd fle, which according to grep on ls -lR's output, 
> does not exist in the thousands of files under hundreds of random names.
>
> This file that sounds exactly like my doorbell has existed on my 
> 24/7/365.25 on main system for at least 20 years. I'd like to A. find 
> it, B. find what condition uses it, fix the condition, or even delete it.
>
> How can I best do that? updatedb, followed by locate door or locate bell 
> reports nothing.
>
> There are now 2 different PIR based devices watching that doorbell 
> button, which trigger on the neighbors cat walking by but remain silent 
> when this sound jacks me up in the middle of the night.
>
> Any help in finding this will be hugely appreciated.

  perhaps a desktop sound?  i hate noises so i turn them
off.

  see if you have any enabled and if so check them all to see 
what they sound like.

  if a file does not have an extension you can still use the
file command to see if it can figure out what it is.


  good luck,


  songbird