Solution to "How do I start the vncserver automatically (linux)"

[zaphodb]

Hi, I've been experimenting with the idea of using su -c and the
rc.d facilities to start a server for a given user at boot time.
And it seems that following some of the list's suggestions 
I've found a working solution I thought I should share with you. 
.
This is what I did:

I made a vnc script and put it in /etc/rc.d/init.d
Its contents are:
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vnc
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#!/bin/sh
#
# Source function library.
. /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions 

RETVAL=0

# See how we were called.
case "$1" in
  start)
 echo -n "Starting VNC services for user Joe: "
        su -l -c /etc/rc.d/init.d/start_vncserver joe
        RETVAL=$?
 ;;
  stop)
 echo -n "Shutting down VNC services: "
        su -l -c /etc/rc.d/init.d/stop_vncserver joe
        RETVAL=$?
 ;;
  restart)
 $0 stop
 $0 start
 RETVAL=$?
 ;;
  *)
 echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart}"
 exit 1
esac

exit $RETVAL
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Then I made  2 symbolic links to this file :
/etc/rc.d/rc.5/S92vnc -> /etc/rc.d/init.d/vnc
and 
/etc/rc.d/rc.5/K36vnc -> /etc/rc.d/init.d/vnc

K36vnc stops the vnc service at shutdown or reboot 
and S92vnc will start the vnc server when entering runlevel 5.
Runlevel 5 is used because the X-server is started at this runlevel.

The contents of the start_vncserver and stop_vncserver scripts are:
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stop_vncserver
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/usr/local/bin/vncserver -kill :1


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start_vncserver
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# Just in case a lock file was not deleted
# now is a good time to get rid of it.
#
/usr/bin/rm /tmp/.X1-lock
#
/usr/local/bin/vncserver -cc 3 -geometry 1024x768 :1 


I had to use the start_vncserver and stop_vncserver scripts as
a go between because the su command didn't accept
as many options as I needed.

Greetz,

Zaphod
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