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Old 09-29-2011
so - let me see if I have this correct ok?

is the user name is test

and their home directory is /usr/local/websites/test

I can create a file called test.profile in /usr/local/websites/test

and the commands in the test.profile will be executed once that user logs in?

thanks

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Quote:
Originally Posted by jjj0923
so - let me see if I have this correct ok?

is the user name is test

and their home directory is /usr/local/websites/test

I can create a file called test.profile in /usr/local/websites/test

and the commands in the test.profile will be executed once that user logs in?

thanks
hmmm... well I know this doesn't work because I just tried logging in as test
 

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test-speech(1)							   User Commands						    test-speech(1)

NAME
test-speech - a test application provided by gnome-speech DESCRIPTION
test-speech is a simple test application provided by gnome-speech. It is used to verify the driver for a speech engine, e.g., freetts-syn- thesis-driver, is funcioning properly, in order to make sure users can activate and interact with the gnome-speech driver successfully. GNOME Speech aims to be a general interface to various text-to-speech engines for the GNOME desktop. It allows the simple speaking of text, as well as control over various speech parameters such as speech pitch, rate, and volume. FILES
The following files are used by this application: /usr/bin/test-speech a test application provided by gnome-speech ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWgnome-a11y-speech | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Interface stability |Volatile | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
libgnomespeech(3), attributes(5) NOTES
gnome-speech is written by Marc Mulcahy and Michael Meeks. SunOS 5.11 3 Dec 2006 test-speech(1)
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