I'm not sure if this detail is relevant to the
following problem or not, but
I didn't mention that our solaris 8 machines (which
runs the server, or
should if it wasn't for this problem) are set up to
run bash as the default.
The reason why I suspect this as a possible cause is
that even my gvim
startup script gets improperly interpretted when I
invoke the executable
from a different account from which it was built (gvim
gets choked by
starting a continued line with "\ ", which is suppose
to be how lines are
made to continue on.
The "make" for both gvim and tightvnc was done
after i explicitly switched to tcsh via "exec tcsh".
However, the problem
manifest itself when I invoke the executable (gvim or
vncserver) from
another account, regardless of whether I "exec tcsh"
or stay in bash.
I even went so far as to put a tcsh script wrapper
around the executable,
then tried a bash wrapper. The problem still
persists.
One odd clue from the bash wrapper(which is the only
one I spent time
trouble-shooting) is that the path from ".bashrc" gets
lost, even though the
.bashrc is invoked (I confirmed it by printing out a
diagnostic message
within .bashrc). Weird, huh? To get around this, I
put "source ~/.bashrc"
into the wrapper. But it does indicate there is some
funny business going
on that I'm not understanding. I added a print
command to the invoked perl
script that starts tightVNC and confirmed that the
PATH was in fact being properly retained. Also, the
text of the vnc error message doesn't appear
within the perl script, so it must be issued by the
Xvnc binary that it
invokes. So the baffling thing is that it passes the
sanity checks in the
"vncserver" perl script, including test for proper
creation of .vnc, but
then can't find it from the invoked binary.
Thanks for any tidbits of wisdom....
P.S. I am currently unable to send to mailing lists
and newsgroups at the
same time, and I've also separately posted to
comp.editors, gnu.bash.bug, comp.unix.questions
Please copy any responses to those groups so that the
information
in the thread can be consistent across all those
forums. Thanks!
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Fred Ma
Department of Electronics
Carleton University, Mackenzie Building
1125 Colonel By Drive
Ottawa, Ontario
Canada K1S 5B6
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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"Shing-Fat (Fred) Ma" wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just installed tightVNC and got it working. It's
awesome.
>
> I tried to show somebody else how awesome it was.
> I tried to run vncserver from his account (the
installation
> was made in my personal account space, and all
files/directories
> are publically accessible; all files in the bin
directory are
> publicly executable). So from the account of
PersonB,
> I was in the directory /home/PersonB, I issued:
>
> /home/PersonA/INSTROOT/bin/vncserver -nolisten
local
>
> I get the error
>
> vncserver: "~/.vnc: No such file or directory"
>
> I create the directory ~/.vnc in his home directory,
but this
> message still persists.
>
> Is there anything special I have to do to make my
installation
> executable by others? It would be such a waste if
only I
> could use it....
>
> Thanks.
>
> Fred
>
>
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> Fred Ma
> Department of Electronics
> Carleton University, Mackenzie Building
> 1125 Colonel By Drive
> Ottawa, Ontario
> Canada K1S 5B6
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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