Re: [gentoo-user] Can I suppress the bleep when shutting down?

[Alan McKinnon]

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


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