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Subject: Re: VNC - server started at boot-time
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On Mon, 31 Mar 2003, D. Theunissen wrote:
> Does anyone know how to start /usr/local/bin/vncserver at boottime as a particular user?
> 
> eg. I want to start the vncserver as user 'dan' during boot.

I've found that if you put
    @reboot	$HOME/bin/startvnc
in dan's crontab works really well.

startvnc is the following script:

    #!/bin/sh

    umask 22
    PATH=<ACTUALPATH>
    MAIL=/var/mail/<USER>; export MAIL
    BLOCKSIZE=K; export BLOCKSIZE
    FTP_PASSIVE_MODE=YES; export FTP_PASSIVE_MODE
    SHELL=/bin/tcsh; export SHELL
    HOME=/home/<USER>; export HOME
    LOGNAME=<USER>; export LOGNAME
    USER=<USER>; export USER
    HOSTTYPE=FreeBSD; export HOSTTYPE
    VENDOR=intel; export VENDOR
    OSTYPE=FreeBSD; export OSTYPE
    MACHTYPE=i386; export MACHTYPE
    SHLVL=1; export SHLVL
    PWD=/home/<USER>; export PWD
    GROUP=<GROUP>; export GROUP
    HOST=<HOST>; export HOST
    CVSROOT=/usr/local/cvsroot; export CVSROOT
    cd /usr/home/<USER> || {
         echo 'Execution directory inaccessible' >&2
         exit 1
    }
    /usr/local/bin/vncserver :2


you could replace items in <> with the equivalent, but I generated this
script by running the last line as an at script (man at).  Finding the at script 
in the queue and copying it to startvnc in my home directory.

> 
> tnx in advance
> 
> Dan.
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