> From: [email protected] [mailto:discuss-
> [email protected]] On Behalf Of William Chan
>
> Thanks to all. Can you tell me a bit more about the VNC approach?
I'm not totally sure we have enough info, but here's a stab at it:
Suppose you're using openindiana. (Because that's what I have in front of me
to talk about.)
You could identify a command like this, that works for your personal tastes:
vncserver :1 -geometry 1350x820
You could make an smf service, that runs under your credentials, and
automatically launches "the above command" at system startup.
You could VNC into the box, go to System / Preferences / Startup Applications,
and specify an arbitrary script in there.
The net result would be, upon boot, system would automatically launch the VNC
gnome desktop, which would automatically launch the specified gui application.
This technique works for all sorts of OSes, including rhel/centos and ubuntu
(substitute the startup manager for your OS, rather than smf of solaris). It's
kind of a hoakey kludge, but I've used it before, when I needed a hoakey kludge.
I've used that before, to automatically launch some guest VM's on a headless
server. I know I'll draw criticism for that comment, because there are so many
other solutions that would be better, but when you inherit a windows AD server
as a VM guest of a headless rhel server, with $0 budget, and you're in a
foreign state for one day, with your schedule completely full, no time to
reformat the system and convert the xen guest into an esx (or whatever) vm...
Hells to all you who wanna laugh at me for doing it, I did the right thing by
not messing with it, and simply making it work automatically. We left it
running for about 2.5 years after that, surviving power outages and everything.
It was very reliable, and I never had to drive or fly back there to mess with
it ever again. Until we closed that office and my coworker had to go there to
pick up the hardware.
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