Internal Beep

btaylor1988 · 07-02-2007, 05:52 AM

hi everyone,

a bit of an odd question here but i would love to get this working. i have a server at home and would like to issue a command into putty on my other PC via SSH to make the internal speaker on the server beep, all of my attempts to make a Perl script to make it beep just result in the speaker on my PC beep and not the internal speaker that should beep on my server.

any ideas?

mallux · 07-02-2007, 08:07 AM

A bit nasty and insecure but how about

Code:

$ ssh root@myserver "echo -e \07 >/dev/console"

pixellany · 07-02-2007, 09:02 AM

Quote:

echo -e \07 >/dev/console

Does not beep on my box

This does beep:
printf "\x07" >/dev/console

And THIS works:
echo -e '\07' >/dev/console

In your example, the fact that the whole command is quoted makes it work????

mallux · 07-02-2007, 10:02 AM

pixellany- yes you are right, you need some extra quotes around the \07 as you say.

My point was that in order to make the remote system beep, you need to send the relevant characters to the remote console (and not your local one), hence the quotes surrounding the whole ssh command.

EDIT: here is the updated command in full:

Code:

$ ssh root@myserver "echo -e '\07' >/dev/console"

btaylor1988 · 07-04-2007, 08:23 AM

none of these commands seem to work for me, ive tried on both server i have yet neither comes back with any sound.