[NTLUG:Discuss] FYI: neat way to call VNC

[Jack Snodgrass]

For redhat and xinetd at least.... 

Put this in your /etc/xinet.d/ directory. Call it vnc-login
# default: on
# description: The vnc server allows nvc logins.
service vnc-login
{
#       flags  = REUSE
        socket_type = stream
        wait  = no
        user  = nobody
        server  = /usr/bin/Xvnc
        server_args = :1 -inetd -query localhost -geometry 1152x864 -depth 16 -once
        log_on_failure += USERID
        disable  = no
}

and add 
vnc-login  5901/tcp		# vnc via xdcmp
to your /etc/services file. 

( I am using vnc-1024 in both the xinet.d directory and /etc/services 
file but I think that vnc-login will work too... not sure why I'm 
using vnc-1024 ) 

Anyway... when you set this up and reload/restart xinetd, when you 
make a connection to your vnc server, you'll have a standard login 
and be able to login as any user and get your xwindows desktop. 

Kind of like a Windows Terminal Server... but for linux. 

jack