RedHat 7.3 install from RPM?

[Benjamin J. Weiss]

Sorry, i'm operating on minus sleep. :)

I copied the scripts from a tight-vnc installation on a RedHat 8.0 to the
7.3 running RealVNC, and it worked just fine, as you said it would.

Thanks!
----- Original Message -----
From: "William Hooper" <whooper@freeshell.org>
To: <vnc-list@realvnc.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 9:06 AM
Subject: Re: RedHat 7.3 install from RPM?


> Benjamin J. Weiss said:
> >
> > Hm..
> >
> > I just installed the 3.3.7 RPM for VNC on RedHat 7.3.  I've previously
> > used tight-vnc, which installs the /etc/services/vncservers file and the
> > /etc/init.d/vncserver startup script, but I don't see either of these
> > from the RPM installation.
> >
> > I checked the docs at http://www.realvnc.com/gettingstarted.html#4,
> > which is supposed to document running a Unix server, but they only give
> > the command line.  I also checked the FAQ, and I didn't see anything
> > about these files there, either.
> >
> > Now, I can try to copy my init scripts from another machine running
> > tight-vnc, but why aren't these files installed by default?
>
> These files are not part of the RealVNC distribution.  The scripts from
> TightVNC (or Red Hat's VNC) will work just fine, though.  You can find
> copies of them at http://faq.gotomyvnc.com/fom-serve/cache/86.html.
>
> > Just had a thought...in tight-vnc, you define which ports are allowed
> > for which log in.  Is this different for RealVNC?
>
> I'm not sure what you are referring to here.
> --
> William Hooper
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