The kukushka-clock is the simple PC simulator of the wellknown cuckoo
clock. The clock is included artifitial cuckoo and the mechanical clock.
More about cuckoo clock you can catch in the Wikipedia by next URL:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuckoo_clock.

On the PC the sound is playing by sound card, and cuckoo is emulated by
CD/DVD tray.

After install the main package components you may to add this script to
the cron manager. F.e. to apply kukushka-clock every hour you should
just make link to the script like following (for vixie-cron):
    ln -sf $(BINDIR)/kukushka-clock /etc/cron.hourly
where $(BINDIR) usualy /usr/bin.

To enable this clock just fix ALLOW variable in the
$(SYSCONFDIR)/sysconfig/$(PACKAGE) file (usualy
/etc/sysconfig/kukushka-clock you need to setup is like 'yes').

The idea was catched from http://bash.org.ru/quote/323695 (in broken
Russian only, sorry).

For installation and using you need following shell binaries: crontabs
(or similar), sed, bash, make, alsa-utils, eject, coreutils, etc.

Sounds placed in the $(PKGDATADIR) (/usr/share/kukushka-clock) in the
WAV formats for aplay player. Just put some sounds you like to that
directory. You may also use the search engine at
http://www.findsounds.com/ISAPI/search.dll for found some birds sounds.

kukushka-clock was written by Andy Shevchenko <andy@smile.org.ua>. It is
free software, and can be used, modified and distributed under the terms
of the 'Do What The Fuck You Want To Public License'.

