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> The idea to install VNC came from oracle support, to fix a 
> problem with printing some reports
> which assume that you have a graphically capable system 
> console. As we just have a plain old
> ascii terminal, Xvnc solves our problem

If there is no graphical console for an X server, You can considder moving
Xvnc in as the X11 server in the X11 configuration. Unfortunatly, on HP-UX,
sam tests the availability of a graphics console to activate the X11 server
so I have to do it all by hand.

If you have a HP-UX workstation around (or any HP-UX box with graphical
console to configure X11) then move the entire configuration to the server
and replace the call to the X11 server with Xvnc. That should give you a
running X11 server at localhost:0.0.

> It was installed by oracle to run as the oracle db system 
> admin account, applmgr, and to get it to run in
> my startup script, I 'su' to this account and issue the 
> startup command. I don't use any options
> except for the display number in the start command so I will try the
> options you mentioned.

If it's for tools created by Oracle Developer, you might need to twiggle
with the colordepth. I recal it relies on pseudo-colors or colormapping.

> 
> You are suggesting I run this as a daemon started by inetd 
> and owned by 'sys'.

The Xvnc as started by inetd should be started by sys (or any other system
user).
The vncserver that relies on 'user' settings in a ~/.vnc/* directory (like
using vncserver or such) should be a normal user. (sys and other system
users, don't have proper home directories).

> This could be ok unless oracle complains about it not running 
> as applmgr, but I would be surprised.

There should be no complain from oracle, The default Xserver on a console
also runs as a system user.

> 
> Anyone else out there been persuaded by oracle to run Xvnc?
> 
You can have any X server, even pc-based ones. Xvnc is the one that suits
the need at reasonable (no) costs.


CBee
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