[ale] permanent networking solution?

[Kevin Krumwiede]

I dunno.  Things like apache are able to change their effective UID
after starting.  I guess if you start vncserver from an init script, it
will end up running as root.  I would dig into the docs and see if there
is a way to make it change its effective UID, or somehow specify what
user it is to run as.

I found this page on Google.  It mentions that RH comes with a
/etc/init.d/vncserver script like I mentioned, so apparently it is
possible to start at boot time.  It also has some info on customizing
its behavior.

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=5499

Sorry I can't help out more, I don't know much about vncserver.

Krum


On Mon, 2002-03-25 at 02:04, ChangingLINKS.com wrote:
> I have still had no luck getting this to run on startup. It occurred to me 
> that I _normally_ use a user and password to get vncserver to work. 
> If I start my box and do not log in to any account, how is vncserver supposed 
> to know which account vncserver applies to? I am somehow thinking that 
> vncserver cannot startup at boot time - or that I need to somehow specify  
> the user. Any comments? 
> 
> On Wednesday 20 March 2002 09:19, Kevin Krumwiede wrote:
> > Two ways of doing it:
> >
> > The simple way: Put the command to run it in a script that runs every time
> > the machine starts, like /etc/rc.sysinit.
> >
> > The slick way: Create a /etc/rc.d/init.d/vncserver script based on one of
> > the other init scripts.  Give it a chkconfig header, which is just a
> > commented line or two that chkconfig reads to determine what runlevels and
> > what order to start things in -- see man chkconfig.  Then run
> > '/etc/rc.d/init.d/vncserver start' to start it and 'chkconfig vncserver on'
> > to turn it on permanently.
> >
> > Krum
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: ChangingLINKS.com [mailto:ChangingLINKS.com at bigfoot.com]
> > > Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 12:47 AM
> > > To: Kevin Krumwiede
> > > Cc: ale at ale.org
> > > Subject: Re: [ale] permanent networking solution?
> > >
> > >
> > > Thank you . I tried it out but have not tested it yet. I tried to say
> > > chkconfig --level 2345 vncserver on so that vncserver would
> > > always start on
> > > my computer. Then I reboot. When I run chkconfig --list it shows that
> > > vncserver is on on run levels 2, 3, 4, 5. I also look at the GUI "service
> > > configuration" and it says that vncserver is supposed to start up in run
> > > level 5.
> > > The problem is that when I type ps ax, I don't see vncserver.
> > > Further, when I
> > > try to connect from another machine, it won't connect. When I ssh in, and
> > > start vncserver it starts up as :1 (which means that it was not running).
> > >
> > > Am I doing something wrong here? How do I get vncserver to start up every
> > > time the computer starts.
> > >
> > > On Tuesday 19 March 2002 21:30, you wrote:
> > > > chkconfig ipchains off
> > > > chkconfig iptables on
> > >
> > > --
> > > Wishing you Happiness, Joy and Laughter,
> > > Drew
> > > http://www.ChangingLINKS.com
> 
> -- 
> Wishing you Happiness, Joy and Laughter,
> Drew
> http://www.ChangingLINKS.com
> 
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