Question about Speech-dispatcher

[jan]

>>>>> "H" == Hermann  <meinelisten at onlinehome.de> writes:

    H> am So 24. Feb 2008 um 12:47:08 schrieb Jan Buchal
    H> <buchal at brailcom.org>: I had to compile SD from the source for my
    H> Ubuntu laptop, because SD 0.6.3tested always crashs when an
    H> updatedb was performed in the background. Getting the packages
    H> from the Hardy branch was not possible, because dpkg indicated,
    H> that various core packages were missing.
    >> which packages you mean?
 
    H> Cannot remember all, but the most impaortant was libc6, a core
    H> library for the system. The required version was not available
    H> over Gutsy, but I didn't want to mess around with such crucial
    H> components.

    H> I succeeded in building and setting up SD 0.6.6, although it was
    H> a lot of work.
    >> I use gutsy with speech-dispatcher from hardy. Another question
    >> is why is not possible make speech dispatcher package for gutsy
    >> as backport.
 
    H> I can't answer this question. How did you manage to install 0.6.6
    H> in Gutsy from Debian packages?
Not from debian but from hardy. I installed it include libc6 but if you
don't wont it then you can install source package from hardy and rebuild
in guttsy.

    H> But one question remains: I had to add a user "speech-dispatcher"
    H> to my system by using the adduser command. This adds a regular
    H> user with password, homedir and all privileges of a common user.
    H> I think this isn't necessary for SD, but I don't know how to add
    H> a user with less privileges, a kind of shadow user that only
    H> exists by name. Is this possible, and if so, how can I perform
    H> this? Hermann
    >> Yes sure, you can add a new user with different parameters. but I
    >> think that best way is install from gutsy, then you can remove
    >> not purge this package and speech-dispatcher user was created by
    >> dpkg so you can simply install speech dispatcher from compiled
    >> version.
 
    H> I did as you suggested, but user "speech-dispatcher" was gone, so
    H> I had to create a new account for SD. Which adduser parameters do
    H> you mean? Hermann
adduser --home

The home is /var/run/speech-dispatcher but I think that in ubuntu is
/var/run dynamicaly mounted by every start, so my answer is not
complete.

Best

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