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

Sat Mar 1 16:26:51 UTC 2008
Rudi Ahlers <Rudi at SoftDux.com>

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
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> And on shutdown it does it reversed.
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> # 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 :)

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