> Some time ago I had a problem with a server that would not power down > automatically so I added the following lines to /etc/init.d/halt to > make it beep continually when it had shut down fully: > > while test true > do > echo -e "\a" > sleep 1 > done > > This should come after the 'halt' statement and before the ': exit 0'.
Thanks a lot! For me 2 single beeps are enough so I'll remove the loop. Thanks again, thats exactly what I was searching for! lg Clemens