alarms

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

Hi

I have been trying to set up alarms on my Solaris box (Sun OS 5.8)
The objective is to present the user an audible alarm every hour or so.
I have so far done this:

#!/bin/sh
val=1
while [ $val -lt 30 ]
do
   printf "\a"
   val=`expr $val + 1`
done

I have put this in my crontab to run hourly.
So far I get nothing. Where am I wrong??

rte

2

what exactly do you expect ? the script is doing nothing .

3

alarms/beeps every hour similar to an alarm clock!!