[Novalug] Who's Ringing the System Bell?
Matthew A. Thompson, Contractor, Code 6189
matthew.thompson.ctr@nrl.navy.mil
Wed May 13 14:30:57 EDT 2009
Okay, folks, this is a weird trivial question about Linux that I can't
seem to answer with my Google-fu. So, I thought I'd give Novalug a try
with it.
Namely, I'm trying to figure out what process keeps calling my PC
speaker with a system bell. Every so often, randomly as far as I can
tell, I hear my old friend the system bell, yet I can't seem to figure
out why. Sometimes I'm browsing Firefox, sometimes I'm coding in vim...
Sometimes I'm not even on the box, just reading at my desk, and *beep*.
So, I figure some background process or daemon must be calling for a
system bell.
My question is, is there a log file or proc or lsof or some
utility/file/pipe I can monitor that outputs calls to the system bell?
It's not happening constantly, and I know I can turn it off with "set b
off", "setterm -blength 0", and the various other ways to rid myself of
it, but I guess I'd rather find the program causing it rather than just
'removing the clapper' as it were.
Thanks,
Matt
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Dr Matthew Thompson, NRC Postdoc (Contractor)
Naval Research Laboratory, Code 6189
202-767-2160
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