Re: vncserver: "~/.vnc: No such file or directory" (gvim too)

[Shing-Fat (Fred) Ma]

Hi again,

I'm not sure if this detail is relevant to the following problem or not, but
I didn't mention that our solaris 8 machines (which runs the server, or
should if it wasn't for this problem) are set up to run bash as the default.
The reason why I suspect this as a possible cause is that even my gvim
startup script gets improperly interpretted when I invoke the executable
from a different account from which it was built (gvim gets choked by
starting a continued line with "\ ", which is suppose to be how lines are
made to continue on.

The "make" for both gvim and tightvnc was done
after i explicitly switched to tcsh via "exec tcsh".  However, the problem
manifest itself when I invoke the executable (gvim or vncserver) from
another account, regardless of whether I "exec tcsh" or stay in bash.
I even went so far as to put a tcsh script wrapper around the executable,
then tried a bash wrapper.  The problem still persists.

One odd clue from the bash executable (which is the only one I spent time
trouble-shooting) is that the path from ".bashrc" gets lost, even though the
.bashrc is invoked (I confirmed it by printing out a diagnostic message
within .bashrc).  Weird, huh?  To get around this, I put "source ~/.bashrc"
into the wrapper.  But it does indicate there is some funny business going
on that I'm not understanding.

Thanks for any tidbits of wisdom....

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Fred Ma
Department of Electronics
Carleton University, Mackenzie Building
1125 Colonel By Drive
Ottawa, Ontario
Canada     K1S 5B6
fma@doe.carleton.ca
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"Shing-Fat (Fred) Ma" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I just installed tightVNC and got it working.  It's awesome.
>
> I tried to show somebody else how awesome it was.
> I tried to run vncserver from his account (the installation
> was made in my personal account space, and all files/directories
> are publically accessible; all files in the bin directory are
> publicly executable).  So from the account of PersonB,
> I was in the directory /home/PersonB, I issued:
>
>      /home/PersonA/INSTROOT/bin/vncserver -nolisten local
>
> I get the error
>
>      vncserver: "~/.vnc: No such file or directory"
>
> I create the directory ~/.vnc in his home directory, but this
> message still persists.
>
> Is there anything special I have to do to make my installation
> executable by others?  It would be such a waste if only I
> could use it....
>
> Thanks.
>
> Fred
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Fred Ma
> Department of Electronics
> Carleton University, Mackenzie Building
> 1125 Colonel By Drive
> Ottawa, Ontario
> Canada     K1S 5B6
> fma@doe.carleton.ca
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