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