starting vncserver (was: RE: [wplug] (no subject))

[Shawn Henderson]

Comming from a windoze to linux enviroment is difficult at times. Here 
is a nice little program that can help you practice linux on a windows 
box and give you a remote view like vnc. http://x.cygwin.com/
I use it to view linux boxes remotely on my windoze box and admin my 
windoze boxes by command line.

have fun welcome to Linux.

Ritchie, Lauren wrote:

> Thank you, ill see if that helps me!
> 
> What signature are you telling me to lose? My company may have one that 
> comes up, but i dont have any control over that!
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanco, Don [mailto:don.vanco at agilysys.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2004 10:57 AM
> To: General user list
> Subject: starting vncserver (was: RE: [wplug] (no subject))
> 
> 
> Ritchie, Lauren <mailto:Lauren.Ritchie at agy.com> scribbled on Wednesday,
> July 21, 2004 10:31 AM:
>  > THank you, glad to know that it work...my boss said that we did not
>  > have vnc on RH9 so i needed to download it...thus why i did.
>  >
>  > Ok, so now that it worked...i mean its there is this list you just
>  > sent me what i need to do next??
> 
>         Yes.....
> 
>  > rpm -ivh "filename" (as root)
>         As you know, this installed it.  It may behoove you to learn a
> bit about RPM, especially the -F (freshen) and -U (upgrade) options, as
> you do not always want to use "-i" (install) 
> 
>  > service vncserver start (will make change in current runlevel)
>         What you've added is considered a "service" - it has a listener
> (daemon) that needs to run to allow connections - this command actually
> starts that service (running "service vncserver" with no modifier will
> give you valid options, as is true with any service you see listed in
> /etc/init.d)   
> 
>  > chkconfig vncserver on (will make "on" state permanent over run level
>  > change / reboot) vncserver :1 (or whatever)
>         The chkconfig command sets the "state" of the services listed in
> /etc/init.d and /etc/xinetd.d across run-level changes (e.g going from
> command line (run level 3) to a GUI login daemon (runlevel 5)) which
> includes reboots...
>         Just trying to nail home the point that there is a difference
> between starting/stopping a service "now" and affecting that change of
> state over a change in runlevel/boot.
> 
>         Since VNC sessions are "per user" based there is no built-in
> means to make an individual session valid over a change in runlevel -
> you'd need to add that to /etc/rc.local or some other common init
> structure locale.
> 
>         Welcome to the fun.  Not being a jerk, but consider non-html
> email if at all possible..... (and lose the legally meaningless gigantic
> signature)
> 
> Don
> 
> 
> 
> 
>  > PS - VNC is a part of RH9 - all you needed to do was run
>  > "redhat-config-packages" and search on VNC - it would have prompted
>  > you for the appropriate disk.  Or even use "up2date vncserver" for a
>  > machine on RHN.  As a new user I would strongly encourage you to look
>  > at the available "redhat-con*" packages, and the RH docs (which are,
>  > in my arguably heavily biased opinion (but you know I'm right) the
>  > best available).
>  >
>  > Don
> wplug-bounces+don.vanco=agilysys.com at wplug.org <> scribbled on :
> 
>  > sorry i am using redhat 9.0 and i downloaded an rpm -----Original
>  > Message----- From: Vanco, Don [mailto:don.vanco at agilysys.com]
>  > Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2004 10:09 AM
>  > To: General user list
>  > Subject: RE: [wplug] (no subject)
>  >
>  >
>  > </html>
>  > What distro?  If it's Red Hat or RPM based, did you load an RPM or
>  > install from source? Generally:
>  > # /etc/init.d/vncserver start
>  > (on RH boxen: "service vncserver start")
>  > # vncserver :1
>  > (or :whatever screen you want) - first run will prompt for password
>  > (will create a .vnc directory in users home with password file - nuke
>  > it to reset password)
>  >
>  >
>  > point VNCViewer to "IP.ADD.RESS:WHATEVER" and enjoy.
>  > Defaults to TWM for desktop/window management.  I highly recommend
>  > blackbox for anything over a WAN / BW constrained; can run GNOME/KDE
>  > on LAN (another edit in the users .vnc directory)
>  > HTH
>  > Don
>  > Ritchie, Lauren <> scribbled on Wednesday, July 21, 2004 9:55 AM:
>  >> Hello,
>  >> I am an intern this summer, working with linux for the very first
>  >> time...yikes! I am trying to learn this...and i am pretty much on my
>  >> own, which makes it tough!! However, I have to download and install
>  >> REALVNC onto my linux machine...i have downloaded but i am having a
>  >> hard time with the whole installation...i did an ls once it was
>  >> downloaded and did not see anything that would help with the
>  >> configuring of it...anyone really good at this and feel they can
>  >> help someone really dumb?? haha Thank you! Lauren
> 
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