[LINUX] [NEWBIE] Little thing, took me awhile to figure out.

[tgray@adacplastics.com]

Heads up to anyone who hasn't run into this, maybe its a really 
basic thing but hey, I'm new to Linux:

I was telnetting in to my Linux box starting a VNC session and 
then connecting to it with the viewer.  No problem, unless I wanted 
to start the VNC session as root.  Naturally my box won't accept a 
root telnet login so I had to login and su.  

When I connected to the root VNC server all I would get would be 
the gray screen with the "X" mouse cursor.  So I was a good little 
boy and checked the config files, looks at the vncserver script and 
all that mess.  One thing I didn't do until recently was check the 
log file of the session that was giving me fits.  When I did, it turns 
out that is was that fact that I had started the server while I was 
su'd to root and VNC starts up SUID root.  It doesn't like that.

When I started the server logged in and the actual console of the 
box it started up happily and that's the end of my story.

Just sharing info, because sharing is something I learned in 
kindergarten.


"If you don't think life is interesting,
you're not paying enough attention." me, 1987-ish.
--Tim Gray
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