Set speaker volume from terminal? (and other volume questions)

[MaestroNole]

I teach a class in a 30 machine emac lab running panther.

Is there any way to set the speaker volume of a machine using a terminal command (over ARD etc.) E.g., setvolume 30 for 30% volume etc. If not are there any console utilities available that do this?


...Also, is there any way to simply completely mute the computer speakers only allowing for headphone use, without having something plugged into the headphone jack 100% of the time?

 

[robbieduncan]

You can probably do it via AppleScript. As you can run AppleScript from the command line via osascript (iirc) that would probably yield a solution...

 

[Bear]

Actual command is:

osascript -e 'set volume <n>'

where <n> is a value from 0-7.

 

[Will Cheyney]

But why?

 

[Bear]

But why?[/QUOTEWhy not?

It's good for remote use. Also good for scheduled scripts - turn sound up, make a noise and turn it back down.