On Mon, Feb 07, 2022 at 07:06:38PM +0100, Adrian van Bloois wrote: > Hallo, > I try to run a morse code program from procmail to produce an audible > signal when mail arrives. My postfix(MTA) calls procmail(mail delivery > agent) to deliver the mail. This obviously runs in the background. > :rpocmail calls morse to give the signal that mail has arrived. However > morse produces an error: > ALSA lib pulse.c:243:(pulse_connect) PulseAudio: Unable to connect: > Connection refused > > I'm using CentOS-7 right now, earlier I used CentOS-6 and then it worked > perfectly. I suspect it is a matter of permissions, but I can't figure > out where it goes wrong. > Do you experts have any ideas????
Are you logging in directly to the CentOS machine and keeping a session active, or is it running headless? And just to sanity check, can you see if the pulseaudio and pulseaudio-utils packages are installed: $ rpm -q pulseaudio pulseaudio-utils ...and running: $ ps aux | grep pulseaudio --Sean
