On Tuesday 20 October 2015 20:48:22 Alan McKinnon wrote: >On 20/10/2015 19:57, Marc Joliet wrote: >> On Tuesday 20 October 2015 19:22:48 Matthias Gerstner wrote: >>> Hi Alan, >>> >>>> I simply want to disable that one particular beeping at shutdown time. >>> >>> well this topic made me curious where the beep is coming from. >>> >>> It does originate from the shutdown command itself which is part of the >>> sys-apps/sysvinit package. In this package's source you find can a file >>> "src/dowall.c", where you will in turn find a function "wall(...)". >>> >>> This is the function where the warning messages will be produced that >>> show up in the terminal and the message is produced like this: >>> >>> snprintf(line, sizeof(line), >>> >>> "\007\r\nBroadcast message from %s@%s %s(%s):\r\n\r\n", >>> user, hostname, tty, date); >>> >>> The "\007" is the beep you're getting. It's a bell character that you >>> can produce manually by doing this, too: >>> >>> echo -e "\007" >>> >>> Unfortunately the bell character is hard coded into the warning message. >>> Also there seems to be no way to suppress the warning message. >> >> [...] >> >> If it's caused by the call to wall(), then maybe the --no-wall option to >> shutdown will help? > >I don't have that option in my ~arch shutdown
*Sigh* then it's probably unique to systemd[sysv-utils]. Sorry for not thinking about that. -- Marc Joliet -- "People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know we don't" - Bjarne Stroustrup
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