Starting Linux VNCServer at bootup

[Todd Aiken]

Thanks to everybody who replied.  I have been sick with the flu for three 
days, but came back today and tried all of the suggestions I got, but I still 
can't get VNC running at bootup.

The first thing I tried was this, suggested by Hartmut Steffin

> the message is misleading. xauth is searched in $HOME, which is not set
> while in rc scripts. modify your line to:
> 
> su - user -c /usr/local/bin/vncserver :0 &
> 
> (you can omit user, if you use root [what you shouldn't])su will set all
> your environment before executing the command.

Got the same message unfortunately.
 
> a still better approach is to have xdm (or even kdm) start your server. you
> will then find your familiar desktop (gnome, kde, whatever) including the
> login-mechanism. you find a file Xservers somewhere (/usr/X11R6/lib/xdm on
> my SuSE). add one (or more) line(s) like
> 
> :1 local /usr/local/vnc/Xvnc -geometry 1000x730 :1
> :2 local /usr/local/vnc/Xvnc -geometry 1000x730 :2
> 
> comment the
> :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X : 0 vt07  (or similar)
> line, if you don't want to start X on your Console as well. be sure to have
> unique displaynumbers :0 :1 :2 etc...
> 
> configure your system in a way that it starts X (e.g. by setting
> DISPLAYMANAGER=kdm (for kde, else xwm or whatever) in /etc/rc.config (SuSE
> again).
> 
> Your desktop on your vnc desktop now looks exactly like that on your
> console!

Problem is is that I am running Slackware, so I don't get a graphical logon at 
startup.  I did try running XDM at the prompt, and got a very basic graphical 
login prompt at the console, so I figured that I could add in the line to start 
VNCserver as suggested, REM out the :0 line to prevent X from starting on 
the console, and then starting XDM at startup.  But before I tried to add XDM 
to my startup files, after doing the above modifications, I tried running XDM 
again at the prompt, but this time I got nothing, and it did not start VNC.

I then tried a suggestion by Nathalie:

> I had a similar error ('vncserver: couldn't find "Xvnc" on your PATH')
> 
> What I did was move all the *vnc* files (vncserver, vncpasswd, Xvnc) to the 
> /usr/bin directory, and that did the trick.

Unfortunately, it didn't work either.

Now what do I do?


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