[ale] VNC dieing and killing session

[James P. Kinney III]

Michael,

I thought that xinetd would stop a process once a connection was no
longer used. That would cause vnc to loose state between connection
attempts.

Add a logging line in iptables that records access to the 5800/5900
ports for vnc. Look to see if another process is trying to camp on that
space.

Also check if there is a keepalive parameter for the vnc server. Does
another vnc server have the same problem? I typically use tightvnc as
much of my remote stuff is over a slow upload dsl line (at best!). I
have left vnc sessions open for days. I do log into a ssh server at the
local site first and then vnc to the next machine.

On Mon, 2004-11-22 at 10:28, Michael D. Hirsch wrote:
> I'm having more, and more serious, VNC trouble.  I run VNC on a remote
> system, and then display eclipse on it to do remote programming.  VNC is
> kicked off by xinetd, so it runs on demand, which is very slick.  It's
> on a RHEL 3 system.
> 
> My problem is that this seems to die frequently.  I'm going along fine,
> then suddenly my client gets disconnected.  This shouldn't be so bad,
> because I can just reconnect, right?  But no, when I reconnect, my VNC
> server has exited and I have to log in all over again.
> 
> I can't find any message in any log file relating to why the system when
> down.  I'm using the VNC server from Real VNC, version 4.0.  I've tried
> multiple clients, with the same behavior, so I don't think it is the
> client.
> 
> Has anyone seen this.  Any suggestions?
> 
> Michael
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