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Unforgiven1:
does anyone know of an alarm clock utility (one that will play those annoying .wav files until you get your ass out of bed) for Redhat Linux 9?  I have one for windows, but I don't trust windows enough to wake me up in the morning...so I'd like to have Linux do it.  Maybe one that turns the computer on and then goes off??

flap:
You want a program that switches your computer on? Is that a joke?

Calum:
you're going to have to leave the computer on, or devise some sort of hardware contrivance (like something to push the power button on yr computer, itself rigged up to a silent alarm) to switch the computer on before the alarm goes off, then have a script which runs the alarm sound at a particular time (using cron?) and plays the sound really loud at you and then in the script it could just repeat every minute or whatever and you could make it run shutdown -h now when it's finished at the end of the script.

unless you want to leave the computer on all night, just get an alarm clock with a nice loud bell.

Unforgiven1:

quote: You want a program that switches your computer on? Is that a joke?
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the desktop in my office is always on...and the laptop in my bedroom is set to wake on LAN.  Or if you put it in standby mode, a program can wake it up.  Either way, it's not consuming so much power or making noise.

re: get an alarm clock
I have 4.  none of them can get me up!(I should probably not get drunk every night)  but the computer worked this morning    I was awake after unsuccessfully trying to plug my USB mouse into the ethernet port! lol and then typing a password wrong twice, all while the most annoying sound I ever heard played...pissed me right off though.

Refalm:
Unforgiven1, I do the same. I have insomnia, and I have trouble getting out of bed. So I have 4 alarm clocks going off at 7:45 AM (my cell phone beeps every 5 minutes from 7:45 AM), the radio (loud) and my light. And sometimes I sleep through that.

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