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From: jareed@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Judith Ann Reed)
Subject: Re: Why does my VAXstation beep at me?
Message-ID: <1991Jun17.125754.22082@rodan.acs.syr.edu>
Organization: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
References: <1991Jun13.211120.10469@bnlux1.bnl.gov>
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 1991 12:57:54 GMT

(Disclaimer: I am not a guru, nor an expert, so I may be wrong!)       

I have a vaxstation running decwindows, and have seen this kind of beeping.
I suspect it is either msgs coming to your session manager window and not
elsewhere (is it iconified when you hear the beeps?) or else operator msgs
which are not being displayed, indicating system problems - frequency of
beeps points to this. Check your error logs. Check operator log on system.
If a satellite to a lavc, check vaxcluster manual for how to enable operator
log on node.  I ignore my beeps, assuming one of the above and keeping an 
eye on the boot node opcom and logs.