having troupble running VNC with cpanel

[jsbthree]

Does CP disable VNC??? its not where it should be.. I am running RH9... the question is this.. where is the executable.. I installed with WH and it looked like it installed .but there is no vnc server or vnc to be found in teh usual places... please help.

[Tino Didriksen]

You know, VNC is for a graphic user interface.
The SB Linux machines do not run a graphic user interface...and shouldn't - it's a waste of processing power.

What you are looking for is SSH, at best.

[jsbthree]

I guess you have a point. My desire is to run VNC as it will make my life a bit easier. My thought, which I guess was stupid or something , was that I will run it while I need it ans shut it down while not in use. The processing power is not really an issue for me at this point ans some ease of use and speed issues are. But if SB disables the graphical context comletely I guess I'm at loss. My understanding when I signed up was that it was my server to do what I wanted.. but you live and learn.

I still need it and while I don't want to be a pest I may have to look elsewhere. Also .. the reasons I need it are not important really as it is not outside the acceptable use policey and is beside the point of whether i can do it or not.

Thanks for the advice.. Im disapointed but will figure somethinng out.

ps. VNC uses very little processign power in the default window mode and as you would guess zero when you kill the proc as I had intended..

[Tino Didriksen]

You can install X and Gnome/KDE if you want, then run a VNC session through that. But it's not installed by default.

However, I'd recommend installing Webmin instead. Smaller, faster, and probably more stable.

Or use SSH...

[jsbthree]

But I have cpanel and dont know is webmin will work with it or not. Do you have any thoughts. Also., isn't ssh installed by defalt?? Or at least I enabled it...but webmin would make my like simpler for sure... thanks againn.. and yes installing an x enviroment is not the simplest -- and therefore the best solution -- if webmin or ssh will work. I do appreciate the help..

[Tino Didriksen]

URL: http://www.webmin.com/, http://www.webmin.com/download.html

SSH is installed by default, yes.

Webmin can be installed as an RPM, so it should be very simple to install.
cPanel must have some tools for installing RPM's, no?

If not, you can use SSH to wget download the RPM, then use rpm -U webmin-1.100-1.noarch.rpm to install it with default options.

[jsbthree]

Installing Tomcat.. or how tomake that easy.. I can install it on local machines but never tried remote installation. My experience has been remote installs of anyting are likely to be problamatic unless its thought through. Thanks..again.. Obviously Im runng RH8.

[Tino Didriksen]

Tomcat is not quite as simple. Also depends on how you want it installed...stand-alone, or connected through Apache...

In any case, the Tomcat FAQs (http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/faq/) are very nice to get it working.
I have only tried connecting Tomcat with Apache 2 on Win2k, though.

You should get used to compiling and installing things from the command line. Will make it a lot easier to do advanced installs remotely, since it'd be exactly the same procedures.

[jsbthree]

I get used to someting and change is a pain but it does get better the more I think in command line. I don't know why either because I grew up in the DOS 80s. Thanks for the link. checking now..

[jsbthree]

Is there a simple way to turn on ssh x11 forwarding??

[Tino Didriksen]

The whole problem stems from the fact that the X Window System (x11) is not on the server.

In order to forward an X session, you still need to install and setup the whole X software show on the server...which I'd say is quite a lot of work just to admin a machine.

[jsbthree]

Is there no baby x .. it seems as if there is a need for a xwindows that adds functionality without the full on KDE or Gneom enviro.. thans again T