Install "beep" package from synaptic...

Alert yourself to a command that takes a long time has completed...
  make ; beep

Alert yourself when something noxious appears in a log file..
  tail -f /var/log/xferlog | grep --line-buffered 'passwd' | \
               beep -f 1000 -r 5 -s




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