On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, William Hooper wrote: > On Jan 6, 2008 2:40 PM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > [snip] > > hmmmm ... not really, but you can see how vncserver thinks. port 5906 > > is currently listening; therefore, display :6 is assumed to be > > running, even though you *clearly* specified display :5 above. > > The vncserver command is just a perl script. If you take a look at > the script itself you will see that specifying ":5" is just used to > calculate the port number, it has no significance beyond that. Since > you manually specified a port number, the ":5" is basically ignored. > > I take part of that back. It does appear to also be used for the > naming of the log file. and (from memory), it's also used for the numbering of the associated 58xx and 60xx ports, so that the trifecta of 58xx/59xx/60xx port numbers don't need to match in those last two digits. or so i recall. i can verify that later. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Home page: http://crashcourse.ca Fedora Cookbook: http://crashcourse.ca/wiki/index.php/Fedora_Cookbook ========================================================================
