It would likely be: service festival start or service festaval stop hth Willem On Wed, 1 Nov 2006, Michael Whapples wrote: > >I am unfamiliar with fedora, so either you need to find out what the > >equivalent tool to start-stop-daemon is. Alternatively you may be able to > >find a copy of it if you google for it. May be some one who knows fedora > >could help with this. > > > > Are you sure that there is not a startup script provided though? > > > > From > > Michael Whapples > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "guy schlosser" <guyster at buckeye-express.com> > > To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." > > <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > > Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2006 4:42 PM > > Subject: Re: A couple problems > > > > > >> Hey there Michael, thanks for the response. I don't have a program > >> called start-stop-daemon. I did a whereis, and got nothing. Any other > >> way to start festival in the background? > >> > >> Thanks again in advance for the help, > >> > >> > >> Guy > >> > >> > >> At 03:54 AM 10/31/2006, you wrote: > >> > >>> > Hello, > >>>For espeak, if compiling, you probably need the devel rpm for portaudio. > >>> > >>>For festival, just executing "festival --server" will not return to the > >>>shell, so scripts cannot continue. The solution is to use > >>>start-stop-daemon > >>>starting festival in the background, if festival was from a rpm you > >>>probably > >>>have a script installed in the startup script directory, you just need > >>>that > >>>to be executed on start up (I don't know how you do this on fedora). > >>> > >>>From > >>>Michael Whapples > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- This message is subject to the CSIR's copyright, terms and conditions and e-mail legal notice. Views expressed herein do not necessarily represent the views of the CSIR. CSIR E-mail Legal Notice http://mail.csir.co.za/CSIR_eMail_Legal_Notice.html CSIR Copyright, Terms and Conditions http://mail.csir.co.za/CSIR_Copyright.html For electronic copies of the CSIR Copyright, Terms and Conditions and the CSIR Legal Notice send a blank message with REQUEST LEGAL in the subject line to CallCentre at csir.co.za. This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks Transtec Computers for their support.