Init scripts for speech-dispatcher and speechd_up

Chuck Hallenbeck chuckh at sent.com
Sun May 2 15:22:11 EDT 2004


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Cheryl,

My guess  is that Shaun did not install his speech-dispatcher in
/usr/local, so his say command was not hidden from the init.d
scripts. Debian folks don't like /usr/local much. Seems like they
might have a point.

Chuck

On Sun, 2 May 2004, Cheryl Homiak wrote:

> Ok, my problem is partly solved.
> With the fix to the dtk-generic problem, which I shamefacedly confess i
> fleetingly noticed but thought it didn't matter as speechd_up wasn't being
> started until after login, I can now allow my system to start
> speech-dispatcher on boot. I can then, as root, run modprobe for the
> speakup_sftsyn and start speechd_up. I get speech; everything is fine.
> However, I can't get Shaun's speechd_up script to also work in /etc/init.d
> due to the error I sent previously, though he says it works fine for him.
> Maybe, due to security concerns, I shouldn't be running speechd_up, which
> has the /usr/local/bin path, in the init scripts anyway; maybe I should
> put it somewhere else. We don't have an rc.local in debian so I'd have to
> think about where to put speed_up. However, I'd still like to know why the
> speechd_up script works for shaun and not for me.
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