Here is a patch to make vncserver actually check that Xvnc successfully started up.
Tim. */ --- vncserver Thu Nov 29 19:43:46 2001 +++ vncserver Tue Jan 29 08:24:09 2002 @@ -164,6 +164,13 @@ # Give Xvnc a chance to start up sleep(3); +unless (kill 0, `cat $pidFile`) { + warn "Couldn't start Xvnc process.\n\n"; + open(LOG, "<$desktopLog"); + while (<LOG>) { print; } + close(LOG); + die "\n"; +} warn "\nNew '$desktopName' desktop is $host:$displayNumber\n\n"; --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the line: 'unsubscribe vnc-list' in the message BODY See also: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/intouch.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------