Re: Off Topic : VNC

        You are starting vncserver in rc? As what user? It sounds like you would want to start as the Oracle DBA user if what you want to do is administer an Oracle instance.

        The first question is: what window manager runs by default if you use a video monitor hooked up directly to your server box. The start-up command for that should go into your .vnc/xstartup file. As an example, mine looks like:

#!/bin/sh
#exec gnome-session
exec startkde
#exec fvwm95

So that when I start vncserver, kde comes up. fvwm95 is a lot faster than gnome and kde on my system (especially thorugh ssh) but I think I had trouble running some of the Oracle GUIs with it. I don't the Oracle stuff does anything with twm.

        Still I had better luck running Oracle GUIs using vnc than with some commercial X-servers on a Win2K box (maybe the version I had was too old). The newer vnc versions are a big improvement over the older ones, too.

        Every time I've heard a cooling fan "ready for take-off" it meant it was about to take off for the grave. Is it really supposed to sound like that?

On Tue, 25 Mar 2003 12:37:25 +1100, "Howard J. Rogers" <howardjr2000_at_yahoo.com.au> wrote:

>Well, it's not totally off-topic.
>
>My Red Hat box is chugging away as my Oracle server, but I want to tuck it
>away out of site (out of sound, actually, as it's an Athlon with a rather,
>er, 'rumbustious' cooling fan. It must be cleared for departure by now, and
>ready for take-off!).
>
>So I stick VNC on it, and a viewer on my nice-and-quiet Pentium PC, and I
>can connect, and do stuff. And I'm happy it works. But I'm not happy that
>VNC displays what must be the most minimalist Windows Manager ever to grace
>the face of the planet... twm. Yuck.
>
>So I trawl through Google, and get all sorts of cryptic advice about getting
>something more decent on display. So, sure enough, I discover a .vnc
>sub-directory in my home directory, and within that there surely is a script
>called xstartup, and in there I replace 'twm' with 'enlightenment' or
>'startkde' or any other thing I can think of... and none of it makes the
>slightest bit of difference. Back on the client PC, I still get yucky twm.
>
>What am I doing wrong, please? If anyone is administering a Unix or Linux
>box remotely with VNC, and using a decent windows manager to do it, please
>let me know how you managed it!!
>
>(In case this makes a difference, I've got an rc5.d script that invokes the
>vncserver application so that the vnc server starts automatically at boot. I
>thought perhaps this might mean there's *another* .vnc directory floating
>around the place, meaning I've spent two hours editing the wrong one, and
>hence the change-less behaviour. But if there is, I can't find it).
>
>Not truly Oracle, I grant you, so please feel free to ignore. But any help
>granted by Linux-aware Oracle Gurus gratefully received.
>
>Regards
>HJR
>
>
Received on Mon Mar 24 2003 - 20:07:37 CST