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Robert, One more thing here. It was pointed out to me by Russ Rew that in my cut/paste from my test.csh, I missed changing all /tmp/test.$$ strings to /tmp/warn.$$. I got the last 2...missed the first 2. Also, Russ mentioned that the xterm invocation line was wrapped by the mailer... the -exec tail +1f /tmp/warn.$$ part is all one line. Chiz On Wed, 19 Jul 2000, Steve Chiswell wrote: > > >I thought I had read how to do this somewhere, but I can't find > >it. I would like to produce a keyboard beep when warnings > >or watches come in, and then file the product. How do I set > >this up in pqact.conf? > > > >Thanks, > >Robert Mullenax > > > Robert, > > I believe you will need a tty running to issue the cntl-G to for the > BEL (ASCII 007) character to sound. > > Here is an example that pops up an xterm tty that displays the product and > beeps: > > #!/bin/csh -f > # opens window and displays product....holds open until ^C is given > > setenv DISPLAY displayhost:0 > > cat >! /tmp/test.$$ > set BEL=^G > echo $BEL >> /tmp/test.$$ > /usr/openwin/bin/xterm -title warning -fg white -bg red1 -exec tail +1f > /tmp/warn.$$ > > rm /tmp/warn.$$ > > > In the above, ^G should be replaced with the actual control G character- > but it has been replaced for sending through the mail. > > Then, in pqact.conf: > DDPLUS ^(WW|WF)US.* (KDEN|KBOU) > PIPE -close util/warn_popup.csh > > > Otherwise, you could EXEC a program that plays through your sound card (such > as > a wav player). > > > Steve Chiswell > Unidata User Support > >