Is there any reason to keep the beep? For anything but server installations
this is really annoying, so I would opt for just removing it completely (see
attached patch).
Index: sysvinit-2.88dsf/src/dowall.c
===================================================================
--- sysvinit-2.88dsf.orig/src/dowall.c 2010-03-19 17:53:57.000000000 +0100
+++ sysvinit-2.88dsf/src/dowall.c 2013-03-09 12:34:24.063049182 +0100
@@ -190,11 +190,11 @@
if (remote) {
snprintf(line, sizeof(line),
- "\007\r\nRemote broadcast message (%s):\r\n\r\n",
+ "\r\nRemote broadcast message (%s):\r\n\r\n",
date);
} else {
snprintf(line, sizeof(line),
- "\007\r\nBroadcast message from %s@%s %s(%s):\r\n\r\n",
+ "\r\nBroadcast message from %s@%s %s(%s):\r\n\r\n",
user, hostname, tty, date);
}
