| 1 |
On Tue, 20 Oct 2015 19:22:48 +0200 |
| 2 |
Matthias Gerstner <Matthias.Gerstner@×××××.com> wrote: |
| 3 |
|
| 4 |
> It does originate from the shutdown command itself which is part of |
| 5 |
> the sys-apps/sysvinit package. In this package's source you find can |
| 6 |
> a file "src/dowall.c", where you will in turn find a function |
| 7 |
> "wall(...)". |
| 8 |
> |
| 9 |
> This is the function where the warning messages will be produced that |
| 10 |
> show up in the terminal and the message is produced like this: |
| 11 |
> |
| 12 |
> snprintf(line, sizeof(line), |
| 13 |
> "\007\r\nBroadcast message from %s@%s %s(%s):\r\n\r\n", |
| 14 |
> user, hostname, tty, date); |
| 15 |
> |
| 16 |
> The "\007" is the beep you're getting. It's a bell character that you |
| 17 |
> can produce manually by doing this, too: |
| 18 |
|
| 19 |
To add one more suggestion to your very good ones (which I've snipped), |
| 20 |
there is a very small patch to remove the \007 at |
| 21 |
<https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=614893#20>. |
Archives