Hi Guys,

I'm running Fedora Core 4 and I have VNC configured and working.

However, everytime I reboot my box I have to manually start the VNC service.

Is there a way of making the VNC service start automatically each time the machine is started, as it's a real pain having to visit the box each time it gets rebooted.

Thanks in advance.

Greg.

chkconfig vncserver on
should do the trick.

Thanks for your reply ;-)

I tried running the command at a terminal window but it says: bash: chkconfig: command not found

Is this command installed by default? If not, can I d/l it and install it from somewhere? The server is at a remote location and I don't have the media in the CD drive right now.

Thanks,

Greg.

chkconfig is in sbin on most distro's

/sbin/chkconfig --level 345 vncserver on

Hi Guys,

I still can't get this chkconfig command to work?! I can see the file in /sbin but every time I try to run it, I just get the BASH error I mentioned earlier.

I've even tried running the chkconfig command as the root user, but that just generates the same error.

Am I doing something wrong?

Also, I come from a Windows background. Is it possible to perform an in-place upgrade of Fedora Core 4 to Fedora Core 5? Do I have to boot from the Core 5 CD/DVD to do this or can I run the upgrade from an extracted ISO on the HDD of the Fedora Core 4 machine?

I'm just a bit concerned that this Fedora Core 4 installation is not working properly and I thought an upgrade might fix it?

What do you guys think?

Thanks,

Greg.

# cd /sbin
# chkconfig

good luck

Hi misterfuzzypants, thanks for your reply ;-)

I tried your suggestion, but it still gives the same error.

What could be wrong here?

Thanks,

Greg.

do a
yum install chkconfig
or download the chkconfig from rpmfind.net and install it.
then try
chkconfig vncserver on

Thanks w3bd3vil I tried the yum install (which seemed to work ok - it went through and asked a few questions and appeared to install OK) but unfortunately I still get the same command not recognised error

I then tried downloading the rpm as you suggested, but when the download completed it said the package was already installed!

What the heck is going on here? This is driving me nuts!!!

Thanks for all your help trying to get this working, I really appreciate it and I'm sorry if this is causing you half as much of a headache as it is me right now ;-)

Thanks and kind regards,

Greg.

so I guess yum installed chkconfig, thats why you got chkconfig already installed.
paste the output of
rpm -q chkconfig
and
find /sbin -name chkconfig

OK, the rpm -q chkconfig command gives this output:

chkconfig-1.3.23-0.4

and the find /sbin -name chkconfig command gives this output:

/sbin/chkconfig

Thanks,

Greg.

/sbin/chkconfig vncserver on