[Gllug] How to schedule a sound
Andrew Halliwell
ah at gnd.com
Mon Jun 9 15:37:13 UTC 2003
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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