running vncserver via systemctl on Fedora 20

Robert Moskowitz rgm at htt-consult.com
Mon Jul 21 20:09:40 UTC 2014


I am making some headway.  My normally weak search foo came up with

http://zeusville.wordpress.com/2012/01/27/setting-up-vncserver-on-fedora-16/

Still almost as confusing as I started.  Particularly if I want more 
than one userid to be able to use vncserver.

On 07/21/2014 03:33 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> I have run vncserver for years, naturally as 'service vncserver 
> start'.  But now it is all systemd and systemctl.  Fine.  So I think I 
> have to configure it for my user, as I always use to edit 
> /etc/sysconfig/vncserver with:
>
> VNCSERVERS="2:alice 3:bob"
>
> So I found I had to:
>
> cp /lib/systemd/system/vncserver at .service 
> /etc/systemd/system/vncserver at .service
>
> but I could not figure out what I needed to edit in this file.  So I 
> tried to start the service with:
>
> systemctl start vncserver
>
> And got:
>
> Failed to issue method call: Unit vncserver.service failed to load: No 
> such file or directory.
>
>
> So what am I missing?
>
> Also in ~/.vnc/xstartup I changed the execute to:
>
> exec gnome-session &
>
> But the xstartup is created the first time I would start the server...
>
> So things are really working differently and I would appreciate some 
> pointers.
>
> thanks
>
>



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