[ale] VNC and Mandrake 8.2

[Geoffrey]

Keith Hopkins wrote:
> Jeb Barger wrote:
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>> I am a real n00b, I just installed Mandrake 8.2 with the KDE desktop.
>>  Anyway, how do I configure VNC to start automatically on boot up? 
>> Thanks,
>>
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>> Jeb W Barger
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>   Look in /etc/rc.d/init.d (valid place in RH7.2, might be a little diff 
> in mdrk)

It's the same.  Mandrake also provides a file /etc/rc.d/rc.local that is 
executed after all the other rc files are processed.  This file is 
explicitly defined for your initialization use.  Understand it only does 
startup stuff, it doesn't do the full start/stop/restart that the 
scripts do in /etc/rc.d/init.d.  But, in this case it would probably be 
sufficient, unless you just want to insure that vnc is started/stopped 
when the network is up/down respectively.

>   There you will find a lot of startup scripts.  Use these for EXAMPLES.
>   Take one, a short simple one, and copy it to a new name (maybe 
> "vncserver"?) and modify it run vnc.
>   Create start/kill links under /etc/rc.d/rc[35].d pointing to your new 
> script.
> 
>   for docs, try the man pages for init, rc, init.d, runlevel, initscrit, 
> or inittab.  Also see the contents of the /etc/rc.d/init.d/rc file.


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