Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 17:17:28 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: James Long <list@museum.rain.com> Cc: Mike Hogsett <hogsett@csl.sri.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Beep! Message-ID: <20020827221728.GE75117@dan.emsphone.com> 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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In the last episode (Aug 27), James Long said: > 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 Make sure you also have "device speaker" in your kernel config file. "man speaker" for more info. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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