SUMMARY: Headless fun

["Christian J. Miller" <Chris@InfoGreat.com>]

Hi Folks,

Several folks offered an article that would run vnc after I was logged
on, but that wasn't really what I wanted.  That is to say I had
explanations for vncserver being run as a result of xdm but what I
needed was xdm to run as a result of an inbound vncviewer connection
request. (And actually, I think I might want both...)

Jeff Woods sent the answer, but I wasn't quick enough to recognize it as
the answer.
Caleb Jorden stated the problem correctly - I wanted to run Xvnc from
xinetd.
Alex Perry sent me an example, and by now I had begun to realize that
Jeff had already given me the answer.

Ultimately I found a web page with precise steps which I followed and
they worked.  I found this page with a google search on "vnc xinetd xdm"
and I got: http://www.sourcecodecorner.com/articles/vnc/linux.asp

After this I was able to type "vncviewer 10.1.2.3:51" and an xdm (gdm,
in my case) appeared and I could log on as any user.  Perfect.

There is one trick -- the configuration file in /etc/xinetd.d must not
have a point in the name.  The article recommends "vncserver.xinetd" and
I found out that xinetd wouldn't open or read it.  If I renamed it or
put a symlink to it, then everything worked just fine.

Thanks for the help offered by the many other folks that had some
insight into my problem and spent their time.


Chris.

Life is a journey, not a destination ...



Oringial Post:

Hi Folks,

So, I have this headless box running RedHat 8.0.  I think I'd like to
run vncserver so I can operate on this box with a vncviewer showing a
desktop.

I think I want to init to level 5 and then vncviewer would show the xdm
(gdm, kdm, ...).  I can't quite see how this works, or rather I can't
quite figure out where to put the vncserver command.  What continues to
happen is that the display is already implied logged in, and I get some
user's desktop.

Any ideas how I can get xdm to display?
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