Comments on: Bespoke services: application/vncserver

By: Stephen

Stephen — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 02:00:16 +0000

@Tom: Glad this conversion was useful; I have a couple more “bespoke” service still to come. — Stephen

By: Tom Hambleton

Tom Hambleton — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 20:00:08 +0000

Thanks for posting the examples. They were very helpful. I had a little touble getting this to work on my system. It turns out that my PATH was not setup properly to run vncserver. I had to add /usr/openwin/bin to the PATH environment variable. This is where the xauth program is located. Other than that it worked great.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Thu, 02 Jun 2005 17:41:59 +0000

@Alan: That would certainly be a good way to pull in a reasonable set of defaults. — Stephen

By: Alan Burlison

Alan Burlison — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 23:54:05 +0000

A while back I wroke a perl script that made shell scripts ‘suid-safe’, and in that I grabbed the contents of /etc/default/init and exported that into the environment, you might like to do the same…