From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 27 15:18:50 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 1E8DE37B400 for ; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 15:18:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8474243E42 for ; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 15:18:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) id g7RMHSV6006609; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 17:17:28 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 17:17:28 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: James Long Cc: Mike Hogsett , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Beep! Message-ID: <20020827221728.GE75117@dan.emsphone.com> References: <200208271953.g7RJriNL010728@axp.csl.sri.com> <20020827202623.GD75117@dan.emsphone.com> <20020827145254.A45384@ns.museum.rain.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020827145254.A45384@ns.museum.rain.com> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i 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 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