From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: by befuddled.reisers.ca (Postfix, from userid 65534) id 938391EFAC1; Tue, 9 Feb 2016 14:13:10 -0500 (EST) Received: from mailbackend.panix.com (mailbackend.panix.com [166.84.1.89]) by befuddled.reisers.ca (Postfix) with ESMTPS id F2BD91EF9D0 for ; Tue, 9 Feb 2016 14:13:07 -0500 (EST) Received: from panix1.panix.com (panix1.panix.com [166.84.1.1]) by mailbackend.panix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB632170F6; Tue, 9 Feb 2016 14:13:04 -0500 (EST) Received: by panix1.panix.com (Postfix, from userid 20712) id D1CDF14B9A; Tue, 9 Feb 2016 14:13:04 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by panix1.panix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE6C514B98; Tue, 9 Feb 2016 14:13:04 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2016 14:13:04 -0500 (EST) From: Jude DaShiell To: John G Heim , "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: keeping espeakup from starting at boot In-Reply-To: <56BA1498.7040405@math.wisc.edu> Message-ID: References: <56B9071A.6060407@math.wisc.edu> <024CFEEDCC5E4E4A9FFB9ED3BB9260B4@train> <56BA1498.7040405@math.wisc.edu> User-Agent: Alpine 2.20 (NEB 67 2015-01-07) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Bogosity: Ham, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.000000, version=1.2.4 X-BeenThere: speakup@linux-speakup.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2016 19:13:11 -0000 Perhaps grep can find which file on a system has speakup=speakup_soft in it and even tell you the line number to check. Since you're an administrator perhaps do a recursive search from the / directory with grep and if that comes back with no results then what I found in debian long ago is probably no longer there. On Tue, 9 Feb 2016, John G Heim wrote: > Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2016 11:32:24 > From: John G Heim > To: Jude DaShiell , > Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. > Subject: Re: keeping espeakup from starting at boot > > I ran 'systemctl disable espeakup' on one workstation and it said that > espeakup is not a native systemd service. It then ran insserv for me. Insserv > modified several files including /etc/init.d/.depend.boot. But I didn't find > any clear/easy way to disable espeakup via just setting a flag in a config > file. > > So I just punted and deleted /etc/rcS.d/S02espeakup. > > I manage approximately 100 workstations and I'd prefer to set a flag in a > config file because I can easily ship that config file to all 100 > workstations. It's just as easy to run a command on all 100 workstations but > then there is no record of the command having been run. Well, it would be in > a log but logs get rotated out. If it's a flag in a config file, it's just > there. You can check on it a month from now or a year from now and know how > the service is configured. > > My guess though is that I'll be able to get what I want once everything is > converted to systemd. It looks like you will be able to create a custom > config file in /etc/systemd/ that enables or disables the service at boot. In > some ways that's better and in some ways it's worse. If the file exists at > all, you know the configuration has been customized. However,if a service > isn't working, you might not think to look for a custom systemd config file. > > > On 02/08/2016 05:24 PM, Jude DaShiell wrote: >> Easier way than that, locate where espeakup has speakup_soft defined as >> synthesizer and edit that and replace speakup_soft with none. >> >> On Mon, 8 Feb 2016, Rob wrote: >> >>> Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2016 17:04:49 >>> From: Rob >>> Reply-To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. >>> >>> To: jheim@math.wisc.edu, >>> Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. >>> >>> Subject: Re: keeping espeakup from starting at boot >>> >>> John G Heim wrote: >>> >>> >>>> On the machines used by the other people in my department, I need to keep >>>> espeakup from starting at boot time. We run ubuntu 15.10 so I think this >>>> is a systemd question. >>> >>> Wouldn't you just go systemctl disable espeakup? >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Speakup mailing list >>> Speakup@linux-speakup.org >>> http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup >>> >> > > --