Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de> writes:
> > > Every time I shut down my gentoo system with "shutdown -h now", it beeps > > > at me. This is becoming steadily more irritating as the months go by. > > > Just what is this beep supposed to be telling me? I _know_ I'm shutting > > > the machine down. > From a virtual console. Matthias has tracked it down for me, and it is > hard coded in one of the C files building shutdown itself. I think I'm > going to edit the source and rebuild it without the bleep. Check out 'epatch_user' [1]. This is exactly what epatch-user was design for. And you get 'persistence' with this type of patch. In fact, this would be a perfect example to find it's way to the gentoo wiki! Bravo, a frequent nuisance, the sounds, and folks could add lots of patches to shut off differnet annoying sounds...... Great Find there Alan... hth, James [1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki//etc/portage/patches
