Re: Beep or visual signal after booting OpenBSD/sparc64

 Hi everybody,

I got time tonight to try both suggestions :

a) eject /dev/rcd0c

it's working perfectly

b) machdep.led_blink=1

no way to make it works. I've enabled this option in /etc/sysctl.conf
or within the root shell (sysctl -w machdep.led_blink=1) without any
visible result.

There is two leds in the front panel of the 1U Sunfire v100 : green
(when poweron) and orange (when faulton is enable in LOM). Both leds
are unresponsive to changes in machdep.led_blink.

Many thanks for your helpful suggestions!


On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 2:55 PM, Jameel Akari <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Sep 2009, Hans Ivers wrote:
>
>> there a way to play a "signal" when the system has finished its
>> booting sequence, to inform me that services are up and running?
>> Ideally, it would be a beep sound, but basically any audible or
>> visible signal is ok for me.
>
> ...
>>
>> - visual signal (there are two alarms linked to green lights in the
>> front case that can be set in LOM but I understand they are not
>> accessible within OpenBSD).
>
> Does the machdep.led_blink sysctl not work on a V100?
>
> You can set it in /etc/sysctl.conf so it starts blinking once the kernel
has
> loaded it; or script something in rc.local to toggle it based on whatever
> conditions you want:  sysctl -w machdep.led_blink=1
>
> I use this on my Ultra10 firewall boxes to indicate they've at least
> attempted to boot.
>
> --
> Jameel Akari