keeping espeakup from starting at boot

[Jude DaShiell]

Perhaps grep can find which file on a system has speakup=speakup_soft in 
it and even tell you the line number to check.  Since you're an 
administrator perhaps do a recursive search from the / directory with 
grep and if that comes back with no results then what I found in debian 
long ago is probably no longer there.

On Tue, 9 Feb 2016, John G Heim wrote:

> Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2016 11:32:24
> From: John G Heim <jheim at math.wisc.edu>
> To: Jude DaShiell <jdashiel at panix.com>,
>     Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. <speakup at linux-speakup.org>
> Subject: Re: keeping espeakup from starting at boot
> 
> I ran 'systemctl disable espeakup' on one workstation and it said that 
> espeakup is not a native systemd service. It then ran insserv for me. Insserv 
> modified several files including /etc/init.d/.depend.boot. But I didn't find 
> any clear/easy way to disable espeakup via just setting a flag in a config 
> file.
>
> So I just punted and deleted /etc/rcS.d/S02espeakup.
>
> I manage approximately 100 workstations and I'd prefer to set a flag in a 
> config file because I can easily ship that config file to all 100 
> workstations. It's just as easy to run a command on all 100 workstations but 
> then there is no record of the command having been run. Well, it would be in 
> a log but logs get rotated out. If it's a flag in a config file, it's just 
> there. You can check on it a month from now or a year from now and know how 
> the service is configured.
>
> My guess though is that I'll be able to get what I want once everything is 
> converted to systemd. It looks like you will be able to create a custom 
> config file in /etc/systemd/ that enables or disables the service at boot. In 
> some ways that's better and in some ways it's worse. If the file exists at 
> all, you know the configuration has been customized. However,if a service 
> isn't working, you might not think to look for a custom systemd config file.
>
>
> On 02/08/2016 05:24 PM, Jude DaShiell wrote:
>> Easier way than that, locate where espeakup has speakup_soft defined as 
>> synthesizer and edit that and replace speakup_soft with none.
>> 
>> On Mon, 8 Feb 2016, Rob wrote:
>> 
>>> Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2016 17:04:49
>>> From: Rob <captinlogic at gmail.com>
>>> Reply-To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
>>>     <speakup at linux-speakup.org>
>>> To: jheim at math.wisc.edu,
>>>     Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. 
>>> <speakup at linux-speakup.org>
>>> Subject: Re: keeping espeakup from starting at boot
>>> 
>>> John G Heim <jheim at math.wisc.edu> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On the machines used by the other people in my department, I need to keep 
>>>> espeakup from starting at boot time. We run ubuntu 15.10 so I think this 
>>>> is a systemd question.
>>> 
>>> Wouldn't you just go systemctl disable espeakup?
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>> 
>
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