on 2-29-2008 10:55 AM Rudi Ahlers spake the following: > Scott Silva wrote: >> on 2-29-2008 2:54 AM Rudi Ahlers spake the following: >>> Hi >>> >>> I see some distro's, like Ubuntu has a nice short chime / sound when >>> a machine is fully booted. >>> How / where can I setup, activate, or create such a boot up sound? >>> >> Do you want something using the system speaker, or the soundcard? >> If through system speaker, there is a utility called "beep" >> (http://www.johnath.com/beep/) >> You can put it at the end of rc.sysinit (or just call it last in >> whatever way you see fit) and not only beep, but play tunes. Only >> limited by your imagination. >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS at centos.org >> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >> > Awesome, thanx :) Google didn't turn up anything usable. And yes, I want > to use the system speaker, since it will be on servers, which generally > don't have monitors, nor external speakers on the soundcard. > Here is the startup sound from ipcop for an example. # Send nice startup beep now /usr/bin/beep -l 75 -f 500 /usr/bin/beep -l 75 -f 1000 /usr/bin/beep -l 75 -f 2000 /usr/bin/beep -l 75 -f 3000 And on shutdown it does it reversed. # Send nice shutdown beep now /usr/bin/beep -l 75 -f 3000 /usr/bin/beep -l 75 -f 2000 /usr/bin/beep -l 75 -f 1000 /usr/bin/beep -l 75 -f 500 -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!! -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 250 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080229/f0e102ee/attachment-0004.sig>