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? -- Thanks very much, Jon Moss jon.moss@cnonline.net
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? -- David L Nicol I have a bike shed. I got it from Home Depot in a flat and heavy box, it took several weekends to put together, and now it has so much junk in it that there is no room for my bike. It was painted at the factory. I could paint it again if I felt like it but I doubt I will.
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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