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Thanks to William (for this particular quoted reply) also Jon Polak for
the auth find suggestion (it 'aint there - but see below for that
problem) and also Sean McAvoy.
Sorry guys, looks like I'm gonna have to try and find xauth for
Slackware and stuff it in there. However, for archive searchers later,
here's the suggestion William made, and progress to date.
First, I originally stated the problem thusly;
+> > "I try to start vncserver and get the error message;
+> > vncserver: couldn't find "xauth" on your PATH."
Adding;
+> > 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?
Commenting out the above out didn't work
Then William responded;
+> Actually xauth is used by the following two lines:
+>
+> system("xauth -f $xauthorityFile add $host:$displayNumber .
+> $cookie");
+> system("xauth -f $xauthorityFile add
+> $host/unix:$displayNumber . $cookie");
+> You can comment them out by putting a # in front of them.
Commenting out the above out didn't work either - sad to relate.
William also helpfully suggested;
+> Or find "xauth" and install it.
If I knew where to get it (slackware site yields nothing) I would! BUT
it's probably the right answer I would guess! :-)
Any further guidance of course will also be appreciated, and when I find
*the* answer I'll post *that* to the list for the archives.
Thanks for the help so far, TIA for any more.
Kind Regards to all,
-Colin
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