At 05:34 AM 01/11/04, Joel Lieberman wrote:
Whew, at first look, I thought you were the guy running for president! =)
>Problem: when I logout of the Unix
>session (as Unix account) either at the
>console or from the telnet session that
>started the vncserver, the vncserver is
>no longer accessible in a correct
>manner.
I have worked up a method I like for starting Xvnc by using dtlogin (from the /usr/dt
stuff in Solaris.) Some nice things about this method are:
- Works as a drop-in to the Solaris CDE framework;
- Allows individual users on the box to have their own Xvnc process running under
their own uid ready & waiting;
- Ideal for remote access, but still useable working locally: vncviewer becomes the
sole local X application.
What I do is:
- Place a line like this in /etc/dt/config/Xservers (which starts out as a copy of
/usr/dt/config/Xservers):
:1 Local [EMAIL PROTECTED] root /var/adm/scripts/dtstartXvnc :1 1280x1024
timwood
Each user gets assigned a line with a unique display number (:1, :2, ...) and their
username. The given geometry (1280x1024) is a default the user can override (below).
- Run these commands:
chgrp root /usr/local/bin/Xvnc
chmod g+s /usr/local/bin/Xvnc
These give Xvnc the privilege to write to the /tmp/.X11-unix directory without running
as root and without making that directory world-writeable. This is needed if you are
running the Sun X server on the local display because of the way that server sets up
the /tmp/.X11-unix permissions.
- Install the dtstartXvnc script
(http://home.pacbell.net/timwood0/scripts/dtstartXvnc). It does two major things:
- Works around a bug observed in dtlogin where the given X server does not run under
the uid given in /etc/dt/config/Xservers.
- Allows users to set certain arguments to Xvnc, via a ~/.vnc/Xvncargs file, even
though the system controls the Xvnc process. The argument processing is best-effort,
not represented as bullet-proof.
I have not used or ported the script anywhere but Solaris 7-8.
FWIW and HTH,
TW
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