cannot kill vncserver

[Daniel Senderowicz]

Hi Robin,

I just commented out the file "vncts" in /etc/xinetd.d and
now works well. However I don't understand what is that file
supposed to do in the overall context. Thank you very much
for your help!

Regards,

Daniel

>On Mon Oct 27, 2008 at 07:37:56PM -0700, Daniel Senderowicz wrote:
>
>> >Okay, there's definitely something listening, which is why you end up
>> >with session 6 each time. You say you've checked for running VNC
>> >sessions, so it must be something else - my guess would be that
>> >inetd/xinetd is set up for VNC (it'll launch the VNC server when a
>> >connection is made).
>> >
>> So, what do you think I should do to get rid of the problem?
>> 
>Firstly, I'd suggest checking whether your distribution has a tool for
>managing xinetd/inetd services (what distribution is it anyway?).
>
>If not, then you'll need to edit the configuration manually.  How to do
>this will depend on whether it's running xinetd or inetd.
>
>For xinetd, the config files should be in /etc/xinetd.d,  There'll
>probably be a 'vnc' file in there - either delete it or edit it and add
>a "disable = yes" line into the service definition.
>
>I'm not sure about inetd - I think that just uses a single
>/etc/inetd.conf file.  The vnc service will be defined somewhere in
>there - either comment out or remove the appropriate line.
>
>You'll then want to restart the inetd/xinetd service.
>
>Cheers,
>    Robin
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