Xvnc -inetd option, what does it realy do?

["Beerse, Corné"]

My question remains: What does the -inet option to Xvnc do? Is it a nice
combination of -nevershared and -once or is there some port negotiation in
the connection setup?

Thanks

CBee


> from what i understand getting the inetd option working 
> enables you to run
> the vncserver as a daemon/service rather than manually 
> launching it from a
> shell.

That's somehow true, the url explains how to set it up. That part works
well.

> it automagically spawns a vncserver process when it is seeing 
> a connection
> on the specified port.

That's not VNC, it's inetd (or xinetd) that spawns the Xvnc.

> it also lets you vnc into the linux box at a resolution you want.
> we use the -inetd option here to keep the server from having 
> one session up
> all the time. we connect as we need it, and when we are 
> finished it kills
> the server.

That's not realy true. It's the -once option that kills the session once the
connection with the vncviewer is lost. It's the -nevershared option that
disallows the take-over.

> one caveat to this is that you cannot share the desktop with others,
> meaning that once you are done you can't come back later.
> 
> 
> Finaly I got xvnc running from inetd (thanks to
> http://www.sourcecodecorner.com/articles/vnc/linux.asp, 
> please put this
> link
> in the FAQ).
> 
> Here Xvnc is started with the -inetd options. All I can find 
> on this is
> "Xvnc is launced by inetd". But what does it realy do? Does it disable
> other
> options? does it change default settings?
> 
> I find the next differences:
> - No second access to the same server: using the same port 
> number gives a
> new session, using the 590x number where x is the display 
> number gives a
> failed connection message.
> - No http access to http://machine:580x/ or to http://machine:59xx/
> - Once the connection is lost, the session is killed.
> Most of the above can be either due to the -inetd option or 
> due to inetd
> itself.
> 
> 
> Regards
> 
> CBee
> 
> 
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> Corni Beerse
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