The equipment is rock solid as soon after it boots.  To replace a system that asks for input 10% of
the time on an average of 1 reboot every six months would just be silly, especially when it is for
home use.
 
Having the beep should hurt no one, and would be good for those of us who want it.  I mean, we're
talking about essentially an 
 
echo -e "\a"
 
at the end of the boot (that should work, haven't tested it).  Sure, we can roll into our own, but I
do believe this would have use in the general image.

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From: Alex M [mailto:radiussupport at lrcommunications dot net]
Sent: Fri 8/18/2006 7:28 PM
To: Bryan K. Brayton; 'Jonathan De Graeve'; 'Molle Bestefich'; 'YvesDM'
Cc: m0n0wall at lists dot m0n0 dot ch
Subject: RE: [m0n0wall] make it "beep" when booted?



If your equipment is not reliable change it then... I wouldn't run anything
on unpredictable equipment... even for test purpuses.




-----Original Message-----
From: Bryan K. Brayton [mailto:bryan at sonicburst dot net]
Sent: Friday, August 18, 2006 7:14 PM
To: Jonathan De Graeve; Molle Bestefich; YvesDM
Cc: m0n0wall at lists dot m0n0 dot ch
Subject: RE: [m0n0wall] make it "beep" when booted?

I think it should beep.  60 minutes is a bit long to wait, don't you think?


I personally have some hardware that for whatever reason likes to stop at
the end of system post and asks what device you'd like to boot about 1 out
of every 10 starts.  Without a console on it, it sometimes is hard to tell
if it is hung at post and I wait an extra minute or so to confirm the issue.
So a system beep would save me a minute or two.  It isn't a lot at first,
but after a few times with that problem, the beep would be a nice
convenience.

Can it really be that hard to execute a shell command to sound the system
bell if all the necessary services start?

Also, a short sound at successful bootup would hardly be enough to annoy
anyone, unless the thing is rebooting every minute.

________________________________

From: Jonathan De Graeve [mailto:Jonathan dot DeGraeve at imelda dot be]
Sent: Fri 8/18/2006 6:47 PM
To: Molle Bestefich; YvesDM
Cc: m0n0wall at lists dot m0n0 dot ch
Subject: RE: [m0n0wall] make it "beep" when booted?



My problem is: even if the system boots and beeps it doesn't mean that
it booted without any problems.

General rule: if the system isn't booted in 60minutes then it isn't
working. You don't need a beep, correct me if I am wrong but I really
don't see the point of implementing a beep?

Kind Regards,

J.

--
Jonathan De Graeve
Network/System Engineer
Imelda vzw
Informatica Dienst
015/50.52.98
Jonathan dot de dot graeve at imelda dot be
> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: Molle Bestefich [mailto:molle dot bestefich at gmail dot com]
> Verzonden: vrijdag 18 augustus 2006 23:37
> Aan: YvesDM
> CC: m0n0wall at lists dot m0n0 dot ch
> Onderwerp: Re: [m0n0wall] make it "beep" when booted?
>
> YvesDM wrote:
> > Anyway, forget the question, it seems like I'm the only one missing
this
> > "feature"
>
> You're likely to miss the beep in a loud server room, or if you went
for
> coffee.
>
> And if you're configuring the device around colleagues or just other
> people in general, the constant beeping tends to get on people's
> nerves.
>
> I like LEDs much better.  A led to show that the device has power, one
> to show that the software/hardware watchdog is running, one per
> interface to show whether it has link, one per interface to show
> whether traffic is passing through.
>
> Combine in multi-color LEDs if you want :-).
>
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