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Date:      27 Aug 2002 17:03:47 -0500
From:      Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Beep!
Message-ID:  <1030485827.410.51.camel@lerlaptop.iadfw.net>
In-Reply-To: <20020827145254.A45384@ns.museum.rain.com>
References:  <200208271953.g7RJriNL010728@axp.csl.sri.com> <20020827202623.GD75117@dan.emsphone.com>  <20020827145254.A45384@ns.museum.rain.com>

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On Tue, 2002-08-27 at 16:52, James Long wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 03:26:23PM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote:
> > 
> > echo "abcd" > /dev/speaker
> 
> I chgrp'ed and chmod'ed /dev/speaker to enable members of group "operator"
> to beep the speaker.
> 
> backup:/home/james> ls -ltr /dev/speaker
> crw-rw----  1 root  operator   26,   0 Aug 27 14:49 /dev/speaker
> backup:/home/james> grep operator /etc/group
> operator:*:5:root,james
> 
> And yet,
> 
> backup:/home/james> echo abcd >/dev/speaker
> bash: /dev/speaker: Device not configured
is device pca in your kernel?



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