This is a Fedora10 installation. Everything worked fine in my Ferdora9 installation. - Logged in as a normal user, xmms player works. -- Logged in as a normal user I can send text to festival with correct speech. -As root, cron job works (I have the time being said via festival). -As root, via commandline, I get this error; Connection failure: Connection refused -Log file shows this when nagios has an error to report. Jan 20 11:35:47 localhost nagios: SERVICE ALERT: domino;DominoServer;CRITICAL;HARD;1;CRITICAL - Socket timeout after 10 seconds Jan 20 11:35:47 localhost nagios: SERVICE NOTIFICATION: durwin;domino;DominoServer;CRITICAL;service-festival;CRITICAL - Socket timeout after 10 seconds Jan 20 11:35:48 localhost pulseaudio[4706]: alsa-util.c: Error opening PCM device hw:0: Permission denied Jan 20 11:35:48 localhost pulseaudio[4706]: module.c: Failed to load module "module-alsa-sink" (argument: "device_id=0 sink_name=alsa_output.pci_1274_1371_sound_card_0_alsa_playback_0 tsched=1"): initialization failed. Jan 20 11:35:48 localhost pulseaudio[4706]: alsa-util.c: Error opening PCM device hw:0: Permission denied Jan 20 11:35:48 localhost pulseaudio[4706]: module.c: Failed to load module "module-alsa-source" (argument: "device_id=0 source_name=alsa_input.pci_1274_1371_sound_card_0_alsa_capture_0 tsched=1"): initialization failed. Jan 20 11:35:56 localhost nagios: SERVICE EVENT HANDLER: domino;DominoServer;(null);(null);(null);service-notify I have added user nagios to these groups. pulse, pulse-rt, pulse-access I have done nothing to modify original configuration of pulseaudio. Any ideas? Durwin