Unable to connect

[John Aldrich]

On Friday 21 September 2007, William Hooper wrote:
>
> Places to look for clues:
>
> - PuTTY's event log (right click title bar -> Event Log)
> - /var/log/secure (info from the sshd side)
> - /home/<user>/.vnc/*.log (though it sounds like you have already verified
> the server is working)
> - hostname in tunnel setup (sometimes if you use the hostname instead of
> localhost then the FC6 firewall becomes an issue)
>
William, quoting from a follow-up message: 
Hey, all... some more information regarding my VNC problem. Here's the  
script I wrote to start the VNC server on my Fedora box:

vncserver  -geometry 1024x768 -localhost
vncconfig -nowin

and here's what I get when I do that:
[john "at" slave1 john_old]$ ./vserver

New 'slave1:1 (john)' desktop is slave1:1

Starting applications specified in /home/john/.vnc/xstartup
Log file is /home/john/.vnc/slave1:1.log

vncconfig: unable to open display ""


I think the last time I used VNC I may have been using Core 4 or 5 (I  
tend to skip versions <G>)

I just tried telnetting to 127.0.0.1 5901 and didn't get anything,  
which leads me to believe that 1) VNC is not running on the linux box  
(PS says it is) or 2)I didn't set my tunnel up right.

Any ideas where I went wrong?
Hey, all... some more information regarding my VNC problem. Here's the  
script I wrote to start the VNC server on my Fedora box:

vncserver  -geometry 1024x768 -localhost
vncconfig -nowin

and here's what I get when I do that:
[john "at" slave1 john_old]$ ./vserver

New 'slave1:1 (john)' desktop is slave1:1

Starting applications specified in /home/john/.vnc/xstartup
Log file is /home/john/.vnc/slave1:1.log

vncconfig: unable to open display ""


I think the last time I used VNC I may have been using Core 4 or 5 (I  
tend to skip versions <G>)

I just tried telnetting to 127.0.0.1 5901 and didn't get anything,  
which leads me to believe that 1) VNC is not running on the linux box  
(PS says it is) or 2)I didn't set my tunnel up right.

Any ideas where I went wrong?