Problem starting VNCServer at boot

[Tom Smith]

Thanks, I was able to get this working last night through 
/etc/rc.local--the key was the PATH statement. Coming from a Linux 
background, I didn't think to do this (this isn't necassary in Linux' 
rc.local).

I'll try your suggestion for using /usr/local/etc/rc.d/vncserver.sh and 
see how that goes.

Thanks again.

Bill Moran wrote:

> Tom Smith wrote:
>
>> ENVIRONMENT
>> FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE
>> TightVNC 1.2.8
>>
>> PROBLEM
>> Getting error: "Starting local daemons:vncserver: couldn't find 
>> "xauth" on your PATH."
>>
>> SITUATION
>> I installed tightvnc-1.2.8 from the port collection and configure 
>> /etc/rc.local to start a vncserver for a specific user at startup 
>> using the following command:
>>
>> su <username> -c "/usr/X11R6/bin/vncserver :1 -depth 8 -geometry 
>> 800x600"
>>
>> When this tries to start at boot up I get the above error. If I start 
>> it from the command line it works fine.
>>
>> This sounds like an issue with the defined PATH at bootup but I've 
>> not been able to find anything explaining how to define this PATH in 
>> the FreeBSD handbook or otherwise.
>
>
> Make a script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d called vncserver.sh (or similar) and
> use:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> PATH=/path/that/you/need
> su <username> -c "/usr/X11R6/bin/vncserver :1 -depth 8 -geometry 800x600"
>
> Can't say with certainty that it will work (as I haven't tested it), but
> I don't see why it won't.  That's the "right" way to do it anyway. 
> (actually,
> it should have a case statement to accept "start" and "stop" ... but I'll
> leave that as an exercise to the reader ... see the other scripts in that
> directory)
>