Gregory Nowak wrote: > Yes, the espeakup init script is failing because espeakup can't > connect to jack, which I don't have here either. Don't worry > about that, it still works like it should, for me anyway. HTH. Aha! So that's it. I don't run jack either, but it still seems to work like it should, so I don't complain. Do more recent init scripts still consider it a failure not to be running jack? Luke wrote: > Also, it has the paste-hangs-system-sometimes problem, I've still got that. Sometimes means: when you paste into the stdin of something (rather than onto /dev/tty). Except that: I ssh to localhost; then I'm always pasting to ssh's /dev/tty, and it takes care of writing to the stdin of its subprocesses. Regards, Peter Billam http://www.pjb.com.au pj at pjb.com.au (03) 6278 9410 "Was der Meister nicht kann, verm?cht es der Knabe, h?tt er ihm immer gehorcht?" Siegfried to Mime, from Act 1 Scene 2