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    Boot sound once in a while

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      rjcrowder
      last edited by

      Makes a short "chirp" when you login via the web UI… that's not what your hearing, is it?

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        godinperson
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        No, really the booting sounds. When you boot the firewall, it does 4 sounds. I get that sound

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          godinperson
          last edited by

          Heard it 3 times today!

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            firewalluser
            last edited by

            Are you in a position to uninstall and reinstall the firewall from scratch, maybe something didnt "take" or something during installation?

            Failing that can you go back to version 2.0 and see what happens then?

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              godinperson
              last edited by

              Not really. It was kind of a pain to install. No CD-Rom, installed on a USB Stick and it's a Production firewall. I would rather find what's causing this. Must be a trigger somewhere.

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                godinperson
                last edited by

                Anything? I hear the sound 3-4 times per day.

                Thanks

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                • GruensFroeschliG
                  GruensFroeschli
                  last edited by

                  You could disable the sound completly:
                  System–>Advanced-->Notifications-->System Sounds

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                  • jimpJ
                    jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                    last edited by

                    It wouldn't play that sound unless it was actually rebooting. The only place in the base system that calls "beep.sh startup" is in /etc/rc and that only runs at boot time. No packages call beep.sh either.

                    The shutdown beep (ends on a low note, not a high one) gets run from system_reboot_cleanup() and that in turn only gets called from functions that shut the system down.

                    So if you are hearing the beeps and the system isn't actually rebooting, someone must have manually added some code somewhere to run beep.sh, perhaps in a cron job.

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                      godinperson
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                      Someone or something.

                      I hear it 3-4 times a day. Around 8:00-8:30am, I hear it every morning but my uptime shows: 31 Days 13 Hours 27 Minutes 56 Seconds

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                        godinperson
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                        I have a Spiceworks server that connects from time to time to get my machine states. Could that be it?

                        It connects through SSH

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                        • jimpJ
                          jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
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                          That would depend on the commands being run by that server when it collects information

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                            godinperson
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                            Spiceworks will use these commands/files/methods:
                            dmidecode
                            /etc/resolv.conf
                            SNMP
                            dmidecode or lshw
                            /proc/meminfo
                            hostname
                            uname -a
                            finger
                            ifconfig -a

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                              godinperson
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                              Close the question. I AM SO NEWB.

                              I had an old pfsense who kept rebooting by itself due to hardware issue. So I changed it but left the old one there but close. After a electricity breakdown, it went back by itself. So what I was hearing was the old one rebooting.

                              Had to switch from nanobsd to full to realized that. While the new pfsense was shutdown, I hear the startup sound. DAH!!!

                              Thanks for your help guys…. sorry

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