[pulseaudio-discuss] Festival error with Nagios

[Durwin F. De La Rue]

Thank you for your reply Lennart.

> On Thu, 22.01.09 08:46, TheCajun (thecajun at nmia.com) wrote:
> 
> > This is a Fedora10 installation.  Everything worked fine in my Ferdora9
> > installation.
> 
> For security reasons PA is not autospawned for root. If you want to
> use it, then you have to run it manually. 
> 
> > Jan 22 08:33:37 localhost pulseaudio[7413]: alsa-util.c: Error opening PCM device hw:0: Permission denied
> 
> Looks like a permission problem. On Fedora access to the sound device
> files is nowadays managed via ConsoleKit/HAL and ACLs -- only the
> currently active session gets access to the device files. If you run
> stuff outside of any session you thus need to modify the CK configuration.

Can you direct me to more information on configuring ConsoleKit and or
HAL?  I have never done either.
> 
> Lennart
> 
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Durwin