[deployment-guide/comm-rel: 116/727] Updated the /etc/sysconfig/vncservers section.

Jaromir Hradilek jhradile at fedoraproject.org
Tue Oct 19 12:33:57 UTC 2010


commit 65c845ce50e98975eb054ff4116d1796208aef2c
Author: Jaromir Hradilek <jhradile at redhat.com>
Date:   Thu Jul 22 17:37:33 2010 +0200

    Updated the /etc/sysconfig/vncservers section.

 en-US/The_sysconfig_Directory.xml |   35 +++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
---
diff --git a/en-US/The_sysconfig_Directory.xml b/en-US/The_sysconfig_Directory.xml
index 8fe7543..f296ff0 100644
--- a/en-US/The_sysconfig_Directory.xml
+++ b/en-US/The_sysconfig_Directory.xml
@@ -1288,21 +1288,28 @@
         <secondary><filename>/etc/sysconfig/vncservers</filename></secondary>
       </indexterm>
       <para>
-        The <filename>/etc/sysconfig/vncservers</filename> file configures the way the <firstterm>Virtual Network Computing</firstterm> (<firstterm>VNC</firstterm>) server starts up.
+        The <filename>/etc/sysconfig/vncservers</filename> file configures the way the <firstterm>Virtual Network Computing</firstterm> (<firstterm>VNC</firstterm>) server starts up. By default, it contains the following options:
       </para>
-      <para>
-        VNC is a remote display system which allows users to view the desktop environment not only on the machine where it is running but across different networks on a variety of architectures.
-      </para>
-      <para>
-        It may contain the following:
-      </para>
-      <itemizedlist>
-        <listitem>
-          <para>
-            <command>VNCSERVERS=<replaceable>&lt;value&gt;</replaceable></command>, where <command><replaceable>&lt;value&gt;</replaceable></command> is set to something like <command>"1:fred"</command>, to indicate that a VNC server should be started for user fred on display :1. User fred must have set a VNC password using the <command>vncpasswd</command> command before attempting to connect to the remote VNC server.
-          </para>
-        </listitem>
-      </itemizedlist>
+      <variablelist>
+        <varlistentry>
+          <term><option>VNCSERVERS=<replaceable>value</replaceable></option></term>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              A list of space separated <option><replaceable>display</replaceable>:<replaceable>username</replaceable></option> pairs. For example:
+            </para>
+            <screen>VNCSERVERS="2:myusername"</screen>
+          </listitem>
+        </varlistentry>
+        <varlistentry>
+          <term><option>VNCSERVERARGS[<replaceable>display</replaceable>]=<replaceable>value</replaceable></option></term>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              Additional arguments to be passed to the VNC server running on the specified <replaceable>display</replaceable>. For example:
+            </para>
+            <screen>VNCSERVERARGS[2]="-geometry 800x600 -nolisten tcp -localhost"</screen>
+          </listitem>
+        </varlistentry>
+      </variablelist>
     </section>
     <section id="s2-sysconfig-xinetd" lang="en-US,as-IN,bn-IN,gu-IN,hi-IN,kn-IN,ml-IN,mr-IN,or-IN,pa-IN,si-LK,ta-IN,te-IN">
       <title><filename>/etc/sysconfig/xinetd</filename></title>


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