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beep does exactly what you would expect: it beeps.
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Unlike printf("\a"), beep allows you to control pitch, duration, and
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repetitions. Its job is to live inside shell/perl scripts and allow
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more granularity than one would otherwise have. It is controlled
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completely through command line options. It's not supposed to be
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complex, and it isn't - but it makes system monitoring (or whatever
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else it gets hacked onto) that much more informative.
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You may need to set beep executable suid; thre are potential security
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issues with doing so, but the beep source code is very small and
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easily auditable, and you won't get a lot of use of it unless it's
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suid, but that's your call. See the SlackBuild script for the proper
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variable to change if you want to install it suid.
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