On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 23:21, David R. Baird wrote: > Silly question, but I run Linux on an old Dell 133MHz, and it > takes it a while to crank up, so I wondered if it was possible to > make the thing 'beep' (or a 'ding' would work just as well) when > it's completed rebooting? > You could use the play command to play some .wav you have. Or this simple command will produce a beep. echo -e "\a" > d. -- Andrew