-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Chuck and all. The line you gave is different than what i have in my /etc/festival.scm. My line reads: (set! server_access_list '(localhost localhost\.localdomain)) When I was setting up my festival, I relied on /etc/init.d/festival, which states: # NOTE: Not just anybody can connect to your server; the list of allowed # hostnames is a regexp. Check /usr/share/festival/festival.scm for more # helpful comments; add your settings to /etc/festival.scm. and on /usr/share/doc/festival/README.Debian, which states: Set the 'server_access_list' variable to the host names you want to grant access to the server. Note that this variable holds a regular expression which is matched against whatever the client's IP address resolves to (or the address itself, if address-to-name resolution fails). For local connections, that is the first name in the '127.0.0.1' line of /etc/hosts; it may or may not be 'localhost'. Set 'server_access_list' to NIL if you want to control access by other means (e.g., if your firewall filters incoming access to TCP port 1314, or whatever you've set the 'server_port' variable to): (set! 'server_access_list nil) I remember that when I was doing it, it took 2-3 edits of /etc/festival.scm and trial and error, before I got it working. So, I'd suggest trying the following in your /etc/festival.scm: (set! server_access_list '(127\.0\.0\.1 cq cq\.ftml\.net)) I haven't run festival for a good while now, in favor of espeak, but I've just started up my festival service, to see if my setup still works, and it does; I was able to telnet to 127.0.0.1 1314, and make festival say some text. Hth. Greg On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 06:30:33PM -0400, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote: > I've done some more narrowing down of the problem, and it turns out the > problem lies in this statement: > > (defvar server_access_list '("127.0.0.1" "cq" "cq.ftml.net") > > If I comment that statement out, the problem goes away, but without an > access list I cannect connect to the festival server. The parens are > not balanced, and there is a single quote without a match, but that's > the way the docs indicate it should be coded. I can't find any other > examples anywhere, and am curious to know if anyone here is running > festival and how they might have coded their access list. > > Thanks, > Chuck > > -- > The Moon is Waning Gibbous (92% of Full) > My new web site location is at: http://hallenbeck.ftml.net > College, that fountain of knowledge, where everyone goes to drink. > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > - -- web site: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org gpg public key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc skype: gregn1 (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) - -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFG11xC7s9z/XlyUyARAnprAJ4ziZKyxnPhTP10Y2bHRf72syXtawCfYqS8 cB3/PySlDk1Nyhl5hhsdUGs= =+5oH -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----