-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Wednesday 2005-11-02 at 19:31 -0800, Carl William Spitzer IV wrote:
bash: /dev/console: Permission denied You have new mail in /var/spool/mail/cwsiv
Seems to give me an error plus an unrelated message.
I already said how to solve that. Read again:
Ah, it is documented:
What this means is that root can always make beep work (to the best of my knowledge!), and that any local user can make beep work, BUT a non-root remote user cannot use beep in it's natural state. What's worse, an xterm, or other x-session counts, as far as the kernel is concerned, as 'remote', so beep won't work from a non-priviledged xterm either. I had originally chalked this up to a bug, but there's actually nothing I can do about it, and it really is a Good Thing that the kernel does things this way. There is also a solution.
(he recommends making it suid)
plus an unrelated message. I had downloaded email ten minutes before and hung up the phone line.
It is not exactly unrelated. Every time you time you press "enter" on a terminal, it checks to see if you have new _system_ mail. Remember that cron and other tasks can send you email. - -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFDbNIztTMYHG2NR9URAg4PAJ0WS6/PWonPD8rJ8lHH/NwqrQLgWQCdHXLW sirZ8bUcAleMmKhlcKW9sos= =r4Km -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----