Can I Install an RPM package?

[victorbrca]

I did a search on the forum and found a thread where other people where looking for a system beep to confirm that the server had booted completely. I also found a feature request for the same.

Smoothwall uses a Linux package called beep2 that allows you to create a script with numeric frequencies and wavelenght and add it to the startup scripts. You can even create music. It looks something like this:

Code:

#!/usr/local/bin/beep
500 100
0 100
750 100
0 100
1000 100

So I was wondering if there's a way to port this RPM to FreeNAS? I'm a Linux guy and I'm not familiar with BSD. Looking at some documentation I found that I needed to have a port for Linux emulator and a kernel module, but I could not find any ports in FreeNAS.

 

[Diogenes Platterwort]

maybe you could echo a bell character? (ctrl-G)

 

[cyberjock]

Without the PC speaker driver there will never be any sound output.