[CentOS] VNCsever not starting at boot

Craig White craig at tobyhouse.com
Thu Dec 6 21:43:37 UTC 2007


On Thu, 2007-12-06 at 16:34 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> When I run system-config-services, it shows vncserver set to start at boot.
> 
> in /etc/inittab I have init 3
> 
> vncserver does not start at boot.
> 
> I log in on the console as root and
> 
> service vncserver start
> 
> and it starts with some warning messages about bad display name in "add" 
> command, but I do not see where these are logged to copy them into this 
> message.
> 
> Once I start it from the console, I have trouble using the vnc client to 
> access the server.
> 
> I really need for the vncserver to start at boot, as I want it to run in 
> a place with no monitor or keyboard....
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I don't recall there being an issue vs runlevel 3 or 5

First off, nx is a much better way to go

Anyway...what's contents of /etc/sysconfig/vncserver ? Is it configured?

Craig




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