Command Line: Turn off sound

[eraker]

Does anyone know how to turn off sound via command line? I want to be able to have this as an automatic setting for when the computer boots.

Thanks in advance.

[Zelmo]

If you have alsa, you can use the amixer program. It may be as simple as

amixer set Master mute

[engineuity]

if you want to disable sound altogether....

you can stop alsa
/etc/init.d/alsa stop

or you can even take it out of the startup scripts in /etc/rcS.d

[eraker]

awesome. I'll try that. Thanks!