Hello,
It's looking for the `xauth` program. My Debian tells me xauth is part
of the xbase-clients package.... there must be some similar package for
slackware. install that package, then try again.
-Sean
On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 16:49, Colin J. Raven wrote:
> Hi all!
> I've RTFM'd...believe me, I've been reading posts for 2 days now on the
> xauth issue.
> The trouble is (AFAIK) no one has actually answered the question in
> layman's terms:
>
> "I try to start vncserver and get the error message;
> vncserver: couldn't find "xauth" on your PATH."
>
> Now I read through the vncserver script carefully, but I'm stupid when
> it comes to perl. This one however made me wonder if here might be the
> answer:
> $xauthorityFile = "$ENV{XAUTHORITY}" || "$ENV{HOME}/.Xauthority";
> Should this be hacked to read something else?
>
> BTW, doing a find on xauth yields nothing on my system (Slackware) so I
> just dunno what to do. I'd happily add it to the path (although I read
> posts that darkly hinted this was insecure) IF I could find the damn
> thing.
>
> Please someone, what do I do about the xauth error message? - in
> beginner's language for pete's sake!!
>
> Regards & Heartfelt TIA,
> -Colin
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