The service command, like so Example using sshd service sshd start service sshd stop service sshd restart Take care, Sina -----Original Message----- From: speakup-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] On Behalf Of Michael Whapples Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2006 1:35 PM To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca Subject: A couple problems >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