Display number with inetd

[William Hooper]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Marc Mazas" <marc.mazas@chu-lyon.fr>
To: <vnc-list@realvnc.com>
Sent: Friday, August 30, 2002 12:12 PM
Subject: TR : Display number with inetd


[snip]
> In my case, the display number is a fixed configuration parameter of the
> Apache Jserv server, and there is only one X client for all the server
> (I assume a servlet), not one X client for each real user. I had the
> idea to use inetd in order to have it relaunch the vnc server in case
> Xvnc terminated for any reason, and thus to hope the application will
> continue to work. So I would have to use the :2 display number, but I
> cannot guarantee it will always be this one ...
>
> Marc
>

If your goal is to always be sure a VNC stays running then you should be
able to do this with a shell script.  I haven't tried it, but what comes to
mind is run the vncserver command with the hardcoded display "vncserver :2"
in a cron job every 5 minutes or so.  You could keep track of it by doing
something like I saw on the Redhat Valhalla list here:
https://listman.redhat.com/pipermail/valhalla-list/2002-August/014560.html

Also out of curiosity, have you had trouble with Xvnc terminated?  Usually
start one session and have it running continuously and I can say that I've
had over 100 days of uptime without VNC causing problems.
--
William Hooper

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