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Hello, James. |
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On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 07:03:27PM +0000, James wrote: |
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> Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de> writes: |
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> > > > Every time I shut down my gentoo system with "shutdown -h now", it beeps |
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> > > > at me. This is becoming steadily more irritating as the months go by. |
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> > > > Just what is this beep supposed to be telling me? I _know_ I'm shutting |
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> > > > the machine down. |
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> > From a virtual console. Matthias has tracked it down for me, and it is |
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> > hard coded in one of the C files building shutdown itself. I think I'm |
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> > going to edit the source and rebuild it without the bleep. |
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> Check out 'epatch_user' [1]. |
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> This is exactly what epatch-user was design for. And |
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> you get 'persistence' with this type of patch. |
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Thank you, indeed. I have now created such a patch, not without one or |
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two problems along the way. With it, emerge -1 sysvinit now works, and |
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it generates me a shutdown which doesn't beep. :-) |
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> In fact, this would be a perfect example to find it's way to the |
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> gentoo wiki! |
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Hmm. I'd have to moderate the language used in the patch for that. ;-) |
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> Bravo, a frequent nuisance, the sounds, and folks could add lots |
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> of patches to shut off differnet annoying sounds...... |
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> Great Find there Alan... |
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Thanks to all those who helped me along the way. |
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> hth, |
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> James |
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> [1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki//etc/portage/patches |
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Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). |
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