From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jan 8 05:41:35 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA24869 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 8 Jan 1999 05:41:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA24864 for ; Fri, 8 Jan 1999 05:41:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from des@flood.ping.uio.no) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.1/8.9.1) id OAA97223; Fri, 8 Jan 1999 14:40:45 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from des) To: Luigi Rizzo Cc: sos@sos.freebsd.dk (Søren Schmidt), obrien@NUXI.com, andyf@speednet.com.au, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: beep, beep, beep! References: <199901080523.GAA10518@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 08 Jan 1999 14:40:44 +0100 In-Reply-To: Luigi Rizzo's message of "Fri, 8 Jan 1999 06:23:12 +0100 (MET)" Message-ID: Lines: 20 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Luigi Rizzo writes: > > It seems David O'Brien wrote: > > > > > Shouldn't the new boot code be beeping at us? :) > > > > Also Also, , make make it it optional optional :) :) > > > The beeps are for our un-sighted users. > > Yeah, but does it have to be 3 of them, we wouldn't want the > > rest of us to go un-hearing now would we :) > and i also commented to Jordan, 3 beeps like those mean you cannot > do night installs at home without waking up the rest of the family. Is that a widespread problem? :) On a more serious note, I'd love it if Somebody (tm) patched the kernel to beep a couple of times after shutting down (when it displays the "press any key to reboot" prompt). Useful when doing maintenance on headless machines. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message