I’m working on a new side-project I had the need for some text to speech functionality from a Linux command line. I found a program called Festival that seems to work pretty well. sudo apt-get install festival will get it for you on Ubuntu and will create a wav file named hello.wav that says “Hello, Festival” and then play it.
Monthly Archives: November 2012
Permanent ban with Fail2ban
If you are banning IP addresses using Fail2ban, there is little need to unban them (unless you ban yourself accidentally). So I always set my ban time to infinite: The key here was to set bantime to a negative number. You might be interested in my post on parsing Fail2ban logs.