Hi Everybody,
I was writing this email hoping to catch an eye of the FAQ maintainer
for the VNC.
I had been looking for a way of starting a vnc server at boot time under
linux (*nix) automatically.
And while I could find only information on how to do this with the Xvnc
started as a root user process I could not find any information as to
how to start a number of Xvnc servers for many different users.
Well, I have figured it out on my own, and thought I should send this
in.
Here is an example init.d script that performs the task:
/etc/init.d/vnc.userwho
# !/bin/sh
# 2002/08/29 (np) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
# Created this startup script to automatically start a vnc server
# for a particular user at a particular display number when the server
is restarted
RUNASUSER=userwho
VNCID=1
VNCSERVER=/usr/X11R6/bin/vncserver
SUDO=/usr/bin/sudo
test -x $VNCSERVER || exit 0
test -x $SUDO || exit 0
# See how we were called.
case "$1" in
start)
$SUDO -H -u $RUNASUSER $VNCSERVER -depth 16 -geometry 1024x768
:$VNCID
;;
stop)
$VNCSERVER -kill :$VNCID
rm -rf /tmp/.X11-unix/X$VNCID
;;
force-reload)
$0 restart
;;
restart)
$0 stop
sleep 60
$0 start
;;
status)
echo ""
echo "Status"
ps -uxw --user $RUNASUSER | grep Xvnc
;;
*)
echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|force-reload|restart|status}"
exit 1
esac
exit 0
P.S.
Perhaps it is a trivial task for most *nix admins, however it was not a
trivial task for me, and I believe it would be usefull information for
other vnc users who may not be as experienced *nix admins as others.
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