On Mon, March 3, 2008 1:12 pm, Karl Cunningham wrote: > Lan Barnes wrote: >> Anyway, I was just installing CentOS 5.1 on a box and I wondered, is >> there >> any reason this rather more stable, less-likely-to-churn-on-me distro >> can't be my workstation as well as my server? >> >> So tell me, what would I be giving up? Application support? Something >> else? > > Back to this thread's original thread, here's an example of where you > might loose some time. > > VNC server wouldn't start on a fresh install of CentOS 5.1; it > complained about not finding fonts. Added paths to fonts to > /etc/sysconfig/vncservers, then to ~/.vnc/config, but neither helped. > Finally resolved by setting font paths in /usr/bin/vncserver (written in > perl), as suggested by a comment in that file. > > Karl > >
Duly noted and filed. -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
