I've done a few quick searches via Google but not finding what I'm looking for.
I have Fedora Core 3 and would like to have VNCserver autoload on startup and give me a login screen when I attach remotely via SSH tunnel.
Is this possible? Can someone point me to a howto or other similar documentation?
umm, man inittab?
I tend to put start-up things in inittab rather than in /etc/rc.d/ start-up scripts, but that's just me.
I have Fedora Core 3 and would like to have VNCserver autoload on startup and give me a login screen when I attach remotely via SSH tunnel.
Is this possible? Can someone point me to a howto or other similar documentation?
On Sunday 16 January 2005 11:41 pm, David Nicol wrote:
umm, man inittab?
I tend to put start-up things in inittab rather than in /etc/rc.d/ start-up scripts, but that's just me.
When configuring a service to start at boot by default, I usually use chkconfig to add it to the default runlevel. This is assuming that there's a startup script in /etc/init.d (use rc-update on gentoo).
I think the real question here from Jon Moss though is about how to have VNCserver act as a GUI Login manager like XDM, as opposed to serving a mirror of an existing GUI session on the host.
I have Fedora Core 3 and would like to have VNCserver autoload on startup and give me a login screen when I attach remotely via SSH tunnel. Is this possible? Can someone point me to a howto or other similar documentation?
I wasn't able to get this to work, although the vnc documentation certainly implies that something like this is possible. I was not able to do anything useful with VNCserver remotely - from the SSH connection. It would only work when launched from a running GUI session, and it was slow enough over a 54Mb home wireless connection that I didn't really pursue it.
What I was able to do was to get XDM to accept remote log-ins and sessions, and the speed was a LOT better than VNC. The problem I ran into with this was that the keyboard on my laptop was not defined correctly, and I was unable to use any punctuation symbols - particularly the forawrd slash ("/") (nor could I type that sequence).
I found a lot of useful information on this by researching Xterminals and the Linux Terminal Server Project. We have some LUG members who work with Lumen Software and do a LOT of work with LTSP, and they were helpful.
What might be easiest with an SSH connection though would be to just launch X or to launch your favorite Window Manager, either manually or via a line in your bashrc.
Something to watch out for though: If you tend to leave yourself logged in on the host, a second GUI session from a remote connection will have problems with locked files and competition for certain resources like addressbooks and mail files.
Thank you for the insigts and suggestions. I will experiment some more.
Jon
On Sunday 16 January 2005 11:41 pm, David Nicol wrote:
umm, man inittab?
I tend to put start-up things in inittab rather than in /etc/rc.d/ start-up scripts, but that's just me.
When configuring a service to start at boot by default, I usually use chkconfig to add it to the default runlevel. This is assuming that there's a startup script in /etc/init.d (use rc-update on gentoo).
I think the real question here from Jon Moss though is about how to have VNCserver act as a GUI Login manager like XDM, as opposed to serving a mirror of an existing GUI session on the host.
I have Fedora Core 3 and would like to have VNCserver autoload on
startup
and give me a login screen when I attach remotely via SSH tunnel. Is this possible? Can someone point me to a howto or other similar documentation?
I wasn't able to get this to work, although the vnc documentation certainly implies that something like this is possible. I was not able to do anything useful with VNCserver remotely - from the SSH connection. It would only work when launched from a running GUI session, and it was slow enough over a 54Mb home wireless connection that I didn't really pursue it.
What I was able to do was to get XDM to accept remote log-ins and sessions, and the speed was a LOT better than VNC. The problem I ran into with this was that the keyboard on my laptop was not defined correctly, and I was unable to use any punctuation symbols - particularly the forawrd slash ("/") (nor could I type that sequence).
I found a lot of useful information on this by researching Xterminals and the Linux Terminal Server Project. We have some LUG members who work with Lumen Software and do a LOT of work with LTSP, and they were helpful.
What might be easiest with an SSH connection though would be to just launch X or to launch your favorite Window Manager, either manually or via a line in your bashrc.
Something to watch out for though: If you tend to leave yourself logged in on the host, a second GUI session from a remote connection will have problems with locked files and competition for certain resources like addressbooks and mail files.
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