[CentOS] Re: VNCsever not starting at boot

Scott Silva ssilva at sgvwater.com
Thu Dec 6 23:50:33 UTC 2007


on 12/6/2007 3:10 PM Robert Moskowitz spake the following:
> Craig White wrote:
>> On Thu, 2007-12-06 at 17:11 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>>  
>>> Craig White wrote:
>>>    
>>>> 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....
>>>>>             
>>>> ----
>>>> I don't recall there being an issue vs runlevel 3 or 5
>>>>
>>>> First off, nx is a much better way to go
>>>>         
>>> yeah, but that will take a bit of work.  At least when I look at it 
>>> back in the summer, it was not just a drop in as vnc has ALMOST been.
>>>    
>>>> Anyway...what's contents of /etc/sysconfig/vncserver ? Is it 
>>>> configured?
>>>>         
>>> Only thing I have configured is the vncservers= line
>>>
>>> and for ~/.vnc I have run vncpasswd to set the password and edited 
>>> the xstartup file to run gnome instead of X:
>>>
>>> For Gnome, replace "twm &" with "exec gnome-session &"
>>>
>>> also uncommented the two lines in xstartup for 'normal desktop'.  
>>> Didn't notice any difference though,
>>>     
>> ----
>> service vncserver restart should be all that you need then
> And how do I do that without logging into the console?  My goal is I 
> boot the system up, and then over the network I remote into the server.  
> I suppose I could 'cheat' and have webmin running....
"chkconfig vncserver --list" should tell you if it is set to start at runlevel 
3, and "chkconfig vncserver on" should make it start on boot at level 3, 4 and 5.

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