[Gllug] How to schedule a sound

[Andrew Halliwell]

And verily, didst Paul Nasrat announce to the hordes:
> 
> On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 03:59:09PM +0100, Garry Heaton wrote:
> > I need to set my crontab to create an audible alert every 20mins. to remind
> > me to do a neck & shoulder exercise. Can't find any info on generating a
> > system 'beep'. Any ideas?
> 
> You might want to consider workrave which is an app for break reminders:
> 
> http://www.workrave.com/
> 
> Otherwise you can issue an audible bell with:
> 
> echo -e '\a' 
> 
> unsure if this works in cron though (I would imagine so.

Actually, thinking about it, I don't know if it will...
It WILL if it's outputted direct to a VC though so echo -e '\a'>/dev/tty0

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