Bell & ssh

Bill Gradwohl bill at ycc.com
Mon Oct 4 18:30:44 UTC 2004


A previous thread went over some bell issues. Here's another.

On a machine with no speakers connected to any sound board, and 
utilizing only the tiny speaker connected to the speaker terminals on 
the main board (or the buzzer mounted on some main boards), can anyone 
explain why
    echo -e '\a'
works (beeps) from the console (not under X), but doesn't work via an 
SSH session into that box?

With 2 boxes next to me, if I ssh from one to the other, the echo 
command doesn't beep, and neither does hitting the backspace key when 
you're already at the beginning of a line. Performing the same thing on 
the machines console does produce the beeps.

How is the ssh session preventing the bell from ringing, and is there a 
way to fix this?

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