Thanks again Derek ... -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Derek Jennings Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 9:13 AM To: H. Carter Harris; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Autostart for VNC
I'm replying on list as this may be of interest to others. The way Mandrake starts up services is this. In the /etc/rc.d/init.d folder are startup/shutdown scripts for each service available. These scripts are never executed, but get copied into the folders /etc/rc.d/rc0.5 , rc1.d , rc3.d, rc4.d , rc5.d , and rc6.d These folders correspond to the six different run levels. The ones that most interest us are rc.5 for normal desktop and rc.6 for shutdown. When you use the Mandrake Control Centre Services GUI, or the 'service' command from the command line. What you are doing is causing a script to be copied/deleted to /etc/rc.d/rc.5 (and rc.6) However the name of the script is changed during the copy. So taking vncserver as an example. When it is enabled the script is copied to /etc/rc.d/rc.5/S91vncserver , and the same script is copied to /etc/rc.d/rc6.d/K35vncserver. The 'S' means 'start', and the 'K' means 'Kill', the number dictates the sequence relative to other services. So this means in run level 5 vncserver is started with a 'sequence number' of 91, and when you shutdown (runlevel 6) it is stopped. When you disable the vncserver service, the script is deleted from rc5.d and rc6.d and so vncserver never starts. Hope that throws some light on how services work. This is a bit different I believe from the way RedHat does it Derek On Thursday 21 Nov 2002 2:52 am, you wrote: > You were right on target Derek. I went by the office this afternoon > and went into control center and looked at the the processes that were > checked to start on boot and you were exactly right ... vncserver was > not checked. I checked it and rebooted and viola a session came up > during the boot. > > I hope you don't mind some followup. > > Do the lines in /etc/sysconfig/vncservers have to be different users? > I have them the same and only one server came up and it came up on the > second display. When I execute the processes from the command line I > use the same user to bring up several sessions and I assumed that it > would work the same during boot. > > I know Mandrake has its own way of doing things and I'm trying to > think like the duck. So far most things work very well if you can > find them. I assume that when I checked that box that a text file > somewhere got updated. Which one was it? My guess would be that it > is one of the init or rc files. > > Thanks again Derek ... your information has been a great help. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Derek Jennings [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 6:24 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [newbie] Autostart for VNC > > On Tuesday 19 Nov 2002 3:38 pm, Carter Harris wrote: > > I downloaded and installed the TightVNC rpm for VNC. It's up and > > running but there are a few things I want to fix. > > > > I wanted TightVNC to start when the system reboots. So I added > > lines to /etc/sysconfig/vncservers, following the example given in > > that file and the great information I got here. Those lines read: > > > > VNCSERVERS="1:vncusername" > > VNCSERVERS="2:vncusername" > > > > Where vncusername is the name of the person who is starting the > > sessions. > > > > I rebooted but nothing was started. I checked my syntax, made sure > > I got it in the file and got it saved ... all the stupid errors; but > > I couldn't see anything. > > > > It does start fine from the command line. I can start and stop the > > processes at will. > > > > Where might I look next? > > Is the vncserver Service set to run at boot? > Mandrake ControlCentre>System>Services > > derek
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