Re: vnc at start-up

[Matt Smith]

Try this:
http://www.dei.isep.ipp.pt/~andre/extern/ixvnc.htm

The newest versions of XVnc have the patch built in.  Effectively, this
allows a XVnc session to be launced via inetd, and upon initial
connection you are presented with a [XKG]DM login screen.  You can even
configure the web component to do the same.  And, with some clever SSH
tunnels created on bootup, you can encrypt your VNC session.

-Matt

On Wed, 2003-01-29 at 21:27, Roger Merritt wrote:
> I've installed vnc from the ports and it works fine, but it's annoying to 
> have to log on to my server and start the vncserver every time I want to 
> connect from my desktop PC. One problem is my server has been randomly 
> rebooting (I suspect hardware problems but ...), so I can't just leave the 
> server running.
> 
> I tried putting a start-up script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d and it works, but 
> in the vncserver script itself there is a loop which checks for the 
> availability of commands, including xauth. Apparently during boot-up the 
> PATH doesn't include /usr/X11R6/bin, so on boot-up one of the messages I 
> get is 'vncserver: couldn't find "xauth" on your path' and the server isn't 
> started.
> 
> Can anyone suggest what I should do to make this work?
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Re: vnc at start-up

[Brian T. Schellenberger]

No, not the vncserver script, the init script that invokes vncserver.

In fact,  if you simply replace the line that says

   vncserver

with the *exact* syntax I put in, it will work.

THe parentheses start a local environment and the PATH adds to the path 
for that environment and then invokes vncserver with the "richer" 
environment that will make it happy.

(PATH=$PATH:/usr/X11R6/bin; vncserver)

On Thursday 30 January 2003 01:30 am, you wrote:
| At 10:12 AM 1/30/03, you wrote:
| >(PATH=$PATH:/usr/X11R6/bin; vncserver)
| >
| >--
| >Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . .   [EMAIL PROTECTED] (personal)
|
| I think you are telling my I should edit the vncserver script to
| modify the PATH environment variable. OK, that sound right.
|
| Thank you.

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Re: vnc at start-up

[local.freebsd.questions]

On Thu, 30 Jan 2003 02:28:19 -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Roger
Merritt) wrote:

>I've installed vnc from the ports and it works fine, but it's annoying to 
>have to log on to my server and start the vncserver every time I want to 
>connect from my desktop PC. One problem is my server has been randomly 
>rebooting (I suspect hardware problems but ...), so I can't just leave the 
>server running.
>
>I tried putting a start-up script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d and it works, but 
>in the vncserver script itself there is a loop which checks for the 
>availability of commands, including xauth. Apparently during boot-up the 
>PATH doesn't include /usr/X11R6/bin, so on boot-up one of the messages I 
>get is 'vncserver: couldn't find "xauth" on your path' and the server isn't

>started.
>
>Can anyone suggest what I should do to make this work?

What about starting it via xdm? Just add a line to the bottom of
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xservers.




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Re: vnc at start-up

[Ruben de Groot]

On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 09:27:42AM +0700, Roger Merritt typed:
> I've installed vnc from the ports and it works fine, but it's annoying to 
> have to log on to my server and start the vncserver every time I want to 
> connect from my desktop PC. One problem is my server has been randomly 
> rebooting (I suspect hardware problems but ...), so I can't just leave the 
> server running.
> 
> I tried putting a start-up script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d and it works, but 
> in the vncserver script itself there is a loop which checks for the 
> availability of commands, including xauth. Apparently during boot-up the 
> PATH doesn't include /usr/X11R6/bin, so on boot-up one of the messages I 
> get is 'vncserver: couldn't find "xauth" on your path' and the server isn't 
> started.
> 
> Can anyone suggest what I should do to make this work?

What about putting

PATH=${PATH}:/usr/X11R6/bin; export PATH

in your startup script?

> 
> -- 
> Roger
> 
> 
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