On 2016-08-10, Dan Hyatt <dhyatt at dsgmail.wustl.edu> wrote: > > I am a bit baffled on this. > > We recently rebuilt all our servers to CentOS release 6.8 (Final) > from a prior 6.x centos release. We ran into a couple of problems > such as Java not working (just had to yum install java). It was > installed, but unable to create a java machine, until I yum install > java solved the problem. > > But now a user (the big boss) is receiving xrdp errors. And it appears > that xrdp is not installed on these newly built servers. > > I googled xrdp and was unable to decipher if it is needed in our > environment (we use sas which does use X11 graphics on the servers to > export graphs). > > If it is needed, wondering why it not included in the groups we have > always used for kickstart. > > When would I need xrdp? or is it one of the leftovers here from a > bygone era? > > > Thanks for your response. The package description (yum info xrdp): "The goal of this project is to provide a fully functional Linux terminal server, capable of accepting connections from rdesktop and Microsoft's own terminal server / remote desktop clients." If you connect to the server(s) using Windows clients, then it's likely that you need this package. I notice that xrdp is in the EPEL repository rather than the standard CentOS repositories. That might explain why it is not installed via kickstart. -- Liam