F20 and Rawhide: Headless install and enabling VNC
Hi, I'*m working on some PXE and kickstart stuff to install headless servers for F20 and Rawhide; did work so far. But is there any official way to enable VNC on a headless server ? I can ssh to this machines, but how do I access this machine via VNC ? I can enable VNC in the Gnome Control Center if I connect a monitor, but how do I enable this via ssh ? /etc/sysconfig/vncserver seems to be gone since F19 ? cu romal -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
Re: F20 and Rawhide: Headless install and enabling VNC
I’m wondering about this myself. I use an F19 and F20 image, but I can’t get VNC to work on either. If anyone knows the trick, it would help me out as well. JC On Feb 20, 2014, at 4:13 PM, Robert M. Albrecht li...@romal.de wrote: Hi, I'*m working on some PXE and kickstart stuff to install headless servers for F20 and Rawhide; did work so far. But is there any official way to enable VNC on a headless server ? I can ssh to this machines, but how do I access this machine via VNC ? I can enable VNC in the Gnome Control Center if I connect a monitor, but how do I enable this via ssh ? /etc/sysconfig/vncserver seems to be gone since F19 ? cu romal -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
Re: F20 and Rawhide: Headless install and enabling VNC
On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 10:13:28PM +0100, Robert M. Albrecht wrote: But is there any official way to enable VNC on a headless server ? I can ssh to this machines, but how do I access this machine via VNC ? I can enable VNC in the Gnome Control Center if I connect a monitor, but how do I enable this via ssh ? If you install tigervnc-server it comes with /usr/lib/systemd/system/vncserver@.service This has a header comment which starts like that: # The vncserver service unit file # # Quick HowTo: # 1. Copy this file to /etc/systemd/system/vncserver@.service # 2. Edit USER and vncserver parameters appropriately # (runuser -l USER -c /usr/bin/vncserver %i -arg1 -arg2) # 3. Run `systemctl daemon-reload` # 4. Run `systemctl enable vncserver@:display.service` # . (and quite a bit more of relevant informations). I did not try that myself but I do not see why this should not work. /etc/sysconfig/vncserver seems to be gone since F19 ? Yeah; systemd actually allows to pass various configuration details via enviroment files but a general tendency and apparently heavily encouraged is to make this copy and edit. Personally I am finding that quite idiotic and detrimental to a long run maintenance. With an every update you should check now if something did not change you need to take care of. Multiply that by a number of such hand configured services and here you are. An alternative is configure such a thing once, forget it, and try to guess what is happening when in the future something goes screwy. Michal -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
Re: F20 and Rawhide: Headless install and enabling VNC
On Thu, 2014-02-20 at 18:44 -0700, Michal Jaegermann wrote: On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 10:13:28PM +0100, Robert M. Albrecht wrote: But is there any official way to enable VNC on a headless server ? I can ssh to this machines, but how do I access this machine via VNC ? I can enable VNC in the Gnome Control Center if I connect a monitor, but how do I enable this via ssh ? If you install tigervnc-server it comes with /usr/lib/systemd/system/vncserver@.service This has a header comment which starts like that: # The vncserver service unit file # # Quick HowTo: # 1. Copy this file to /etc/systemd/system/vncserver@.service # 2. Edit USER and vncserver parameters appropriately # (runuser -l USER -c /usr/bin/vncserver %i -arg1 -arg2) # 3. Run `systemctl daemon-reload` # 4. Run `systemctl enable vncserver@:display.service` # . (and quite a bit more of relevant informations). I did not try that myself but I do not see why this should not work. /etc/sysconfig/vncserver seems to be gone since F19 ? Yeah; systemd actually allows to pass various configuration details via enviroment files but a general tendency and apparently heavily encouraged is to make this copy and edit. Personally I am finding that quite idiotic and detrimental to a long run maintenance. With an every update you should check now if something did not change you need to take care of. Multiply that by a number of such hand configured services and here you are. An alternative is configure such a thing once, forget it, and try to guess what is happening when in the future something goes screwy. The *point* of the copy-and-edit system is so the 'stock' configuration can be updated and you don't wind up with .rpmnews all over the place. If we ship it as /etc/systemd/system/vncserver@.service and you edit it, it's never going to be 'magically' reconciled on update, you'll just get a .rpmnew file. That's not any better. Things could still change behind your back and make your /etc/sysconfig file not work any more in the old system... -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
Re: F20 and Rawhide: Headless install and enabling VNC
On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 10:51:42PM -0500, David wrote: Would this be of any use for you? 6.12. yum-plugin-merge-conf http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/14/html/Software_Management_Guide/ch06s12.html Sounds useful but not in the context we are talking about. I do not know if any of unit files in /usr/lib/systemd/system/ are config files, most likely not, and surely none of your modified copies will be recognized as such. This means that there will be nothing to merge. Michal -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
