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    making headless server beep on restart

    I have a headless 12.04LTS server that runs in my closet. When I do system changes and I need to restart sometimes I would like to know that it has finished restarting.

    I was reading an older post where users could turn on a beep in a version 7.10 server. I tried what was suggected in this article and it does not work with 12.04LTS. I did install beep and checked the /etc/modprobe/blacklist.conf file to uncomment the pcspkr blacklist and I could manually type beep in the command line and I could hear the server speaker beep. Ideally I would like to have the speaker 'beep' when rc has finished.

    Has anyone every done this with 12.04LTS server addition?

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    Re: making headless server beep on restart

    Hello!

    Add that beep command in the end of /etc/rc.local file, right before "exit 0"

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    Re: making headless server beep on restart

    Personally I've never managed to get 'beep' to work on Ubuntu. Something to do with the underlying sound system ? I thought the beep command used the internal speaker of the PC...

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    Re: making headless server beep on restart

    Why stop with a single beep??

    http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1157670

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    Re: making headless server beep on restart

    The beep command doesn't work on my computers, maybe a sound system thing? But mplayer does. If you want you could install mplayer and have it play a short sound clip every time the machine boots. Putting the followint in /etc/rc.local should do the trick

    mplayer /path/to/sound.wav

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    Re: making headless server beep on restart

    Currently I am not using a IPCop box or a Smoothwall box. But i have in the past. Both of these firewall programs create a beep tone emitted by the system speaker to indicate completion of the start up sequence.

    (HughSerrano, your suggestion of the end of rc.local did not work. Sorry.)

    I did some reading of the beep man file. I have now created a /etc/rcbeep.sh file. I have given it executable permissions. This file contians:
    Code:
    #!/bin/bash
    beep -l 300 -f 329.6 -n -l 300 -f 370 -n -l 300 -f 523.2
    This produces three tones when I type (in a command line)
    Code:
    rcbeep.sh
    Now the question is where in the start up sequence do I insert a line calling the rcbeep.sh file?

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    Re: making headless server beep on restart

    either in rc 5 i think or in cron like

    Code:
    @reboot /path/to/beep.sh

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