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Hi,

I want to run my server headless, so I just installed VNC according to the instructions here:
http://wiki.amahi.org/index.php/VNC

I then told Fedora to not start X, according to these instructions:
http://wiki.amahi.org/index.php/Fedora- ... mmendation

Everything seems to work fine, except that when I reboot the server I can't connect to it using TightVNC until I log in (on the server) and then tell it to start vncserver.

Any ideas what I might be doing wrong?

Thanks.

can you check if VNC is installed as a service?
ls /etc/init.d/

if you see it, you can run the following command:
chkconfig <vncdaemon> --list
it should give you output in which runlevels the vncdaemon is started automatically.
if it lists everything "off" you can enable it by giving the following command:
chkconfig <vncdaemon> --level 2345 on
the next time the server is rebooted VNC will start in the background.
you can also manually start it with:
service <vncdaemon> start

Thanks for helping me again, moredruid.

I've not got anywhere with this so far. This is what I did:

1. Logged in as root
2. Ran ls /etc/init.d/
3. vncserver was listed (not vncdaemon)
4. Ran chkconfig <vncdaemon> --list
5. Got the response -bash: vncdaemon: No such file or directory
6. Tried chkconfig <vncserver> --list
7. Got the response -bash: vncserver: No such file or directory
8. Checked /etc/gdm/custom.conf
9. This was there (added by the script from http://wiki.amahi.org/index.php?title=V ... edirect=no): Any ideas?

ah

the <vncdaemon> was a placeholder for the real script.
you should be able to run
chkconfig vncserver --list
and
chkconfig vncserver --level 2345 on
to manually start it (for now, it'll work automagically after next reboot) you can issue
service vncserver start

D'oh!

Thanks moredruid, that's worked.