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Re: Help tracking down a random beep

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On Wed, 8 May 2019 20:32:49 -0400
rhkramer@gmail.com wrote:

>On my Debian Jessie system, for several hours today I've been hearing a beep 
>(through my audio system / speakers / headphones) something like the beep that 
>used to come out of the PC speaker (on older computers -- I don't think I even 
>have that speaker connected on this computer).
>
>The beep occurs at fairly random intervals, varying from about 5 seconds and 
>going up to as much as 5 minutes or more.
>
>I've tried looking at a lot of the logs, but so far I haven't found any log 
>that tells me anything about that beep (the logs I've looked at include 
>syslog, messages, Xorg, kern, daemon, wtmp (??).
>
>Does somebody here have some suggestions on trying to track down the source, 
>preferably without having to shut down any applications or the computer? 
>


Possibly an open website? Some of those become very annoying.

-- 
Charlie Kravetz
Linux Registered User Number 425914
[http://linuxcounter.net/user/425914.html]
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Help tracking down a random beep rhkramer@gmail.com - 2019-05-09 02:40 +0200
  Re: Help tracking down a random beep Charlie Kravetz <charlie@keepingdreams.com> - 2019-05-09 06:00 +0200
    Re: Help tracking down a random beep Cindy Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> - 2019-05-09 08:20 +0200
      Re: Help tracking down a random beep Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2019-05-09 12:00 +0200
        Re: Help tracking down a random beep Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-05-09 16:00 +0200
          Re: Help tracking down a random beep Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-05-09 16:30 +0200
        Re: Help tracking down a random beep Jan Claeys <lists@janc.be> - 2019-05-09 20:50 +0200
          Re: Help tracking down a random beep David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-05-10 03:20 +0200
            Re: Help tracking down a random beep rhkramer@gmail.com - 2019-05-10 16:30 +0200
      Re: Help tracking down a random beep rhkramer@gmail.com - 2019-05-09 16:00 +0200
        Re: Help tracking down a random beep Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2019-05-09 18:10 +0200
  Re: Help tracking down a random beep Martin <keine-eile@online.de> - 2019-05-09 16:10 +0200
    Re: Help tracking down a random beep rhkramer@gmail.com - 2019-05-09 19:10 +0200

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