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

[James <wireless@tampabay.rr.com>]

Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de> writes:


> > > Every time I shut down my gentoo system with "shutdown -h now", it beeps
> > > at me.  This is becoming steadily more irritating as the months go by.
> > > Just what is this beep supposed to be telling me?  I _know_ I'm shutting
> > > the machine down.

> From a virtual console.  Matthias has tracked it down for me, and it is
> hard coded in one of the C files building shutdown itself.  I think I'm
> going to edit the source and rebuild it without the bleep.


Check out 'epatch_user' [1].
This is exactly what epatch-user was design for. And
you get 'persistence' with this type of patch. In fact,
this would be a perfect example to find it's way to
the gentoo wiki!

Bravo, a frequent nuisance, the sounds, and folks could add lots
of patches to shut off differnet annoying sounds......

Great Find there Alan...


hth,
James



[1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki//etc/portage/patches