[mythtv-users] Starting VNCServer Auto-magically

Ben Lancaster lists at benlancaster.co.uk
Sun Apr 22 20:39:15 UTC 2007


On 21 Apr 2007, at 23:34, Carlos Garcia-Sierra wrote:

> I am running FC5 and MythTV in a fast machine. (1G RAM / Dual Core  
> 64bit AMD processor)
>
> I want to start a vncserver auto-magically after boot in two users  
> (not the mythtv user). Such users are a regular user and root. I  
> usually use VNC & root for admin activities, while the second user  
> is a user I use for bit-torrent, web-surfing, etc from my not-top- 
> of-the-line-laptop.

Avoid VNC as root. Bad idea.

> I added the line: vncserver :1 into /etc/rc.local in order to start  
> the root vncserver service.
> But the graphical interface crashes as the computer boots. I can  
> not connect via VNC. However ssh is alive.

VNC has some init scripts which might prove more useful. On FC5:

# chkconfig vncserver on

...then edit /etc/sysconfig/vncservers

For example, mine contains the following:

VNCSERVERS="1:username"
VNCSERVERARGS[1]="-geometry 1024x768 -nohttpd"

VNCSERVERS="2:username"
VNCSERVERARGS[2]="-geometry 800x600 -nohttpd"

Might be worth emptying your ~/.vnc folders and recreating them if  
you're having stability problems. Also check you're running the  
x86_64 version of VNC - I had stability issues running the i386 builds

Obligatory 1p GBP.

Ben




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