From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Nov 19 22:47:37 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id WAA14441 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 19 Nov 1997 22:47:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id WAA14414 for ; Wed, 19 Nov 1997 22:47:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from j@uriah.heep.sax.de) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id HAA02390; Thu, 20 Nov 1997 07:47:29 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.8/8.8.5) id MAA27073; Wed, 19 Nov 1997 12:56:16 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <19971119125616.CS64559@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Wed, 19 Nov 1997 12:56:16 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Cc: cao@bus.net (Chuck O'Donnell) Subject: Re: /dev/speaker References: X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: ; from Tim Vanderhoek on Nov 14, 1997 20:12:45 -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Tim Vanderhoek wrote: > On Thu, 13 Nov 1997, Jamil J. Weatherbee wrote: > > > printf "\a" > > /dev/console > > with appropriate privs, of course. /dev/console is a poor choice, it could be a serial console, redirected to an xconsole, or dropped entirely. /dev/ttyv0 is a better choice. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)