Re: [SLE] How to beep from a cron job?

The 02.10.18 at 15:35, Anders Johansson wrote:

On Friday 18 October 2002 14.50, Carlos E. R. wrote:

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Hi,

Is there an easy way to produce beeps (or better) with the internal speaker, from inside a cron job - ie, without having a terminal?

Alternatively, a not so easy way. I don't want to use the external speaker for this, they may be off.

Simplest way I can think of

*/1 * * * * root echo -e "\007" > /dev/tty1

in crontab will send a 'beep' character to virtual console 1 every minute :)

Well... it might work, but for root, not for any user. I'll try. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson