running vncserver via systemctl on Fedora 20

[Michael D. Setzer II]

On 21 Jul 2014 at 15:33, Robert Moskowitz wrote:

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Subject:        	running vncserver via systemctl on Fedora 20
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> 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
> 

I found it easier to user rc.local to start the sessions 
runuser -l user -c 'vncserver :port geometry 1280x1024'
where user is the user id, and port is the port you want to user it on.
The systemctl requires you to copy the file with the :port added, and then you 
have to modify it with the users name.

I also tried running boinc via systemctl, and it would start, but they would only 
run at about 33% of the cpu, whereas running them directly would use 98% 
or higher. 

You do have to create the /etc/rc.d/rc.local file, and make sure the service is 
running, since it isn't by default.


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