How to sound audible bell from crontab
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The command line:
/bin/echo -e "\007"
in bash will ring the bell. With the line:
- /bin/echo -e "\007"
in my crontab I expected the bell to ring every minute, but it's silent. I know crontab is working because the line:
- /bin/touch $HOME/jkjkjk
updates the file jkjkjk every minute as it should. I found a posting some years ago suggesting that standard output should be directed to /dev/tty1 in crontab. But the line:
- /bin/echo "\007" >/dev/tty1
Still fails. What to try next?
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