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VNC client connection notification

I have a couple of boxes that are running a vnc service on the local display in an always shared state. I was wondering if there were any known programs or ways to have a notification displayed for the console user that someone has connected. Using the -accept option isn't really suitable because for the most part there may not be a person at the console. Looking for something that could possibly show the hostname or ip of the machine that someone connects from and a timestamp. If an applet isn't available for such a thing the ability to have the connection show up in xconsole might suffice as well but couldn't figure it out... Any information would be greatly appreciated!

Hi lolo2kx,

have you tried checking the .log file in the $HOME/.vnc/ directory?
In there all activity is logged:

Code:

[snip]

14/09/07 19:42:23 Got connection from client 0.0.0.0

[snip]

Client 0.0.0.0 gone

etc.

You could set up a cronjob that greps the file for these entries. Or, alternatively, just keep a terminal open with tail -f ~/.vnc/mylogfile.log running.

Hope that helps!
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