Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 09:44:35 +0100 From: Ruben de Groot <fbsd-q@bzerk.org> To: Roger Merritt <mcrogerm@stjohn.ac.th> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vnc at start-up Message-ID: <20030130084435.GA16177@ei.bzerk.org> In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.0.20030130091936.00a298d0@127.0.0.1> References: <5.2.0.9.0.20030130091936.00a298d0@127.0.0.1>
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On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 09:27:42AM +0700, Roger Merritt typed:
> I've installed vnc from the ports and it works fine, but it's annoying to
> have to log on to my server and start the vncserver every time I want to
> connect from my desktop PC. One problem is my server has been randomly
> rebooting (I suspect hardware problems but ...), so I can't just leave the
> server running.
>
> I tried putting a start-up script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d and it works, but
> in the vncserver script itself there is a loop which checks for the
> availability of commands, including xauth. Apparently during boot-up the
> PATH doesn't include /usr/X11R6/bin, so on boot-up one of the messages I
> get is 'vncserver: couldn't find "xauth" on your path' and the server isn't
> started.
>
> Can anyone suggest what I should do to make this work?
What about putting
PATH=${PATH}:/usr/X11R6/bin; export PATH
in your startup script?
>
> --
> Roger
>
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