Fix for DECTalk initscript problems

[Stephen Clower]

Great! Now if I can figure out how to fix that strange /var/run/*.pid error, I'll be able to use Speakup with Dectalk without having to login as root every time.



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On 5/2/2004 at 9:48 AM Jacob Schmude wrote:

>Hi all
>	Well, thanks to Mr. Hanke of the speechd time who made a change to
>the generic.c module, I have been able to discover and resolve the problem
>of DECTalk not starting at system boot-up. It turns out to be one of those
>simple, should-have-been-obvious things that one feels like an idiot for
>missing.
>The Problem:
>	DECTalk is installed in  the /usr/local tree, and say resides in
>/usr/local/bin. However, the initscripts don't include /usr/local/bin in
>their path statements, for valid security reasons. As a result of this,
>the shell couldn't find the say command and thus it wasn't being
>executed.
>The Solution
>	Edit dtk-generic.conf. Where the say command is referenced, put
>the full path to say like:
>/usr/local/bin/say
>	Save the file. That's it. Now it will execute properly on startup.
>HTH
>
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