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    Boot sound once in a while

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      godinperson
      last edited by

      Heard it 3 times today!

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        firewalluser
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        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
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          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
                  last edited by

                  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
                    last edited by

                    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
                      last edited by

                      That would depend on the commands being run by that server when it collects information

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                        godinperson
                        last edited by

                        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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