Sorry Mike, I accidentally hit "reply" instead of "reply all". I think I'll go to sleep now. Begin forwarded message: 0000,0000,0000From: Lina Pezzella < 0000,0000,0000Date: November 22, 2004 11:19:46 PM EST 0000,0000,0000To: Mike Frysinger < 0000,0000,0000Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo beeping at me! On Nov 22, 2004, at 8:51 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: On Monday 22 November 2004 08:43 pm, Roman Gaufman wrote: Also, if you're going to use ebeep, how about an option in make.conf: beep="no" # annoying beeping sound for those that actually watch the compile output. oh, you mean something like EBEEP_IGNORE ? Please! I can't second this request enough. I like to have the pc speaker in my computer, but I've been sacrificing it to the benefit of actually sleeping while emerge -uD world runs.