[Gllug] How to schedule a sound

[Paul Nasrat]

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.

Paul

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