Sorry, I thought Linux + FreeBSD were close enough. In FreeBSD you ask crontab to do your script any minute of the day, week, or year etc. Your script might have to ask the audio network database management control subsystem to submit a half-second MP3 file every half hour :-} Chuck Bacon On Tue, 19 Feb 2008, walt kautz wrote: > hey charles I dont know how 2 make it chime.do you > know how 2 run linux & windows on the same machine? > --- Charles Bacon <crtb@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Here's my solution: crontab, a tiny shell script, >> and a suitable .au >> file for /dev/au. >> Chuck Bacon -- crtb@xxxxxxxx >> ABHOR SECRECY -- DEFEND PRIVACY >> >> On Fri, 15 Feb 2008, sean wrote: >> >>> Does anyone know if the clock can be made to chime >> on the hour, 1/2 >>> hour, or some optional setting? >>> >>> Thanks >>> Sean >>> >> ___________________________________________________ >>> This message is from the kde mailing list. >>> Account management: >> https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. >>> Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. >>> More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html. >> >> Here's my solution: crontab, a tiny shell script, >> and a suitable .au >> file for /dev/au. >> Chuck Bacon -- crtb@xxxxxxxx >> ABHOR SECRECY -- DEFEND PRIVACY >> >> ----- Add to your .crontab if you have one, >> otherwise invent your own ----- >> # Sample crontab entry fires off the cuckoo clock >> once per hour, exc. at night. >> 0 8-22 * * * "/home/crtb/music/sounds/cuckoo.clock" >> >> ----- copy this along with cuckoo.au into your own >> bin directory ----- >> #!/bin/sh >> # Play the cuckoo clock for the most recent hour >> hr=`date "+%l"`; >> while [ $hr -gt 0 ] ; do >> cat ~/bin/cuckoo.au > /dev/audio >> hr=`expr $hr - 1` >> done> > ___________________________________________________ >> This message is from the kde mailing list. >> Account management: >> https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. >> Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. >> More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html. > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. > http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs > ___________________________________________________ > This message is from the kde mailing list. > Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. > Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. > More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html. > ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.