Red Hat Configuration - Re: Can a server boot into runlevel 3 (console) with VNC available

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Re: Can a server boot into runlevel 3 (console) with VNC available

kurt

2006-07-13, 1:23 am

Farce Milverk wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is it possible to have a server boot into runlevel 3 / console mode,
> and at the same time have X Windows available for VNC users?
>
> I'm asking because I've noticed that sometimes my server does not completely
> boot X Windows (it stops on the screen with the Monitor Graphic), However,
> from a different box, I can still VNC into the server, and can see a normal
> X Windows / GNome desktop, and go about my work as if nothing were wrong.
>
> Configuration:
> Fedora 4 core
>
> thanks for any help,
>
> Farce
>
>

Yes. The X server isn't tied to a runlevel. If you boot into runlevel 3
and start VNCServer you can connect to an X Session remotely. To start a
local session from RL3, just type "startx".

....kurt