[Gllug] How to schedule a sound

[Xander D Harkness]

Andrew Halliwell wrote:

>And verily, didst Paul Nasrat announce to the hordes:
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>>On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 03:59:09PM +0100, Garry Heaton wrote:
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>>>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?
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>>You might want to consider workrave which is an app for break reminders:
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>>http://www.workrave.com/
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>>Otherwise you can issue an audible bell with:
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>>echo -e '\a' 
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>>unsure if this works in cron though (I would imagine so.
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>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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Yes now it gets silly, a server in my brother's office is now beeping 
SOS :-)

X

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