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. >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > This script works so well, thank you :) -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers CEO, SoftDux Web: http://www.SoftDux.com Check out my technical blog, http://blog.softdux.com for Linux or other technical stuff, or visit http://www.WebHostingTalk.co.za for Web Hosting stugg