How about running XVNC under inetd?
>From inetd.conf:
Xvnc    stream  tcp     nowait  nobody  /usr/local/bin/Xvnc Xvnc -inetd
-query localhost  -once -geometry 800x600 -depth 24

XDM should be running also.

Of course, since I can't read the original message, I'm not *exactly*
sure what the original problem is...
-Matt

On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 01:56, Ruben de Groot wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 10:07:46PM -0500, Brian T. Schellenberger typed:
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On Thursday 12 December 2002 03:45 pm, Brian wrote:
> > | getting vnc to start at boot is tricky, since you want it to start as
> > | some user, rather than as root.  A solution I've been thinking of is
> > | looking at the output os ps auxw, grepping for Xvnc owned by the
> > | desired user, if its there exit, if not run vncserver as the user in
> > | question.  Putting it in cron with a /8 to check every 8 minutes
> > | seems a good idea.
> 
> You can put it in the desired user's crontab like this:
> 
> @reboot       /path/to/startup-command
> 
> > 
> > 
> > My *guess* is that you would always want the server to start as the 
> > *same* user, if you want it to start at boot.
> > 
> > In that case, it's quite simple, at least in theory (meaning, I haven't 
> > done this).
> > 
> > If that is the only user who will *ever* want to own the server, then 
> > just make that user the owner of vnc and set the suid bit.
> > 
> > If you want to keep the "default" vnc server with the usual owner 
> > (root?), then just create a hardlink used for the startup command and 
> > suid *that* as above.
> 
> The suid bit is stored in the inode, not in the directory-entry of a 
> hardlink. If you suid the hardlink you also suid the original.
> The same goes for ownership.
> 
> > 
> > |
> > |   Bri
> > |
> > | On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, Daniel HARTMANN wrote:
> > | > Bonjour,
> > | >
> > | > J'utilise vnc vers ma machine Freebsd.
> > | >
> > | > Mais comment d?marrer "vncserver" automatiquement au boot sans
> > | > taper la commande ??
> > | >
> > | > Merci
> > | >
> > | >
> > | >
> > | >
> > | >
> > | > Dany_H  ;-)
> > |
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