On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 10:07:46PM -0500, Brian T. Schellenberger typed: > > > > On Thursday 12 December 2002 03:45 pm, Brian wrote: > | getting vnc to start at boot is tricky, since you want it to start as > | some user, rather than as root. A solution I've been thinking of is > | looking at the output os ps auxw, grepping for Xvnc owned by the > | desired user, if its there exit, if not run vncserver as the user in > | question. Putting it in cron with a /8 to check every 8 minutes > | seems a good idea.
You can put it in the desired user's crontab like this: @reboot /path/to/startup-command > > > My *guess* is that you would always want the server to start as the > *same* user, if you want it to start at boot. > > In that case, it's quite simple, at least in theory (meaning, I haven't > done this). > > If that is the only user who will *ever* want to own the server, then > just make that user the owner of vnc and set the suid bit. > > If you want to keep the "default" vnc server with the usual owner > (root?), then just create a hardlink used for the startup command and > suid *that* as above. The suid bit is stored in the inode, not in the directory-entry of a hardlink. If you suid the hardlink you also suid the original. The same goes for ownership. > > | > | Bri > | > | On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, Daniel HARTMANN wrote: > | > Bonjour, > | > > | > J'utilise vnc vers ma machine Freebsd. > | > > | > Mais comment d?marrer "vncserver" automatiquement au boot sans > | > taper la commande ?? > | > > | > Merci > | > > | > > | > > | > > | > > | > Dany_H ;-) > | > | To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > | with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > -- > Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . . [EMAIL PROTECTED] (personal) > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
