From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 27 15: 3:50 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02B7237B400 for ; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 15:03:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lerlaptop.iadfw.net (lerlaptop.iadfw.net [206.66.13.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8893343E65 for ; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 15:03:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ler@lerctr.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lerlaptop.iadfw.net (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g7RM3ljk002334 for ; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 17:03:47 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from ler@lerctr.org) Subject: Re: Beep! From: Larry Rosenman To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG 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> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.8 Date: 27 Aug 2002 17:03:47 -0500 Message-Id: <1030485827.410.51.camel@lerlaptop.iadfw.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-milter (http://amavis.org/) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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? -- Larry Rosenman http://www.lerctr.org/~ler Phone: +1 972-414-9812 E-Mail: ler@lerctr.org US Mail: 1905 Steamboat Springs Drive, Garland, TX 75044-6749 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message