[CentOS] Re: how to create a boot up sound / chime for servers?

Scott Silva ssilva at sgvwater.com
Sat Mar 1 22:48:04 UTC 2008


on 3-1-2008 8:26 AM Rudi Ahlers spake the following:
> Scott Silva wrote:
>> 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.
>>>>
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>>> 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
>>
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> This script works so well, thank you :)
> 
I always try to please!  ;-)


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