Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 21:11:50 -0800 From: UCTC Sysadmin <ecsd@transbay.net> To: mmercer@nc.rr.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: machine beeps periodically. Message-ID: <3C4CF496.43333D21@transbay.net> References: <3C460679.5D3BCF7F@nc.rr.com>
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Verify the BIOS thing to be safe. Something is asking for the beep. If your machine is online 24x7 and people know you, it could be someone trying to "talk" to you - the beep would correspond to one window where "Talk requested" message is displayed. Esp if it happens at completely random times, and the beep occurs a couple times before it gives up. I don't know if it's meaningful but you could try changing permissions for the speaker device to stop access and then look through logs for a process that complains that it can't access the speaker. Check (comsat/biff etc.) that a mail notification thing is not accidentally configured to run. It won't necessarily beep when you get mail, it may only beep if there is new mail after the polling period (every N minutes.) Assuming the beep is not in reply to your keystrokes ... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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