[Box-Admins] Re: [squeak-dev] source.squeak.org inaccessible

[Ken Causey]

You simply login as the appropriate user for the service, squeaksource
for example, and run vncserver.  The setup for vnc is in ~/.vnc/, most
importantly ~/.vnc/xstartup.  As a prerequisite you must shut down any
existing instance of the squeak process and if it is running under
daemontools shut it down using daemontools so it doesn't start it back
up automatically.  This of course assumes that .vnc/xstartup starts the
Squeak process for you which is what we have tended to do generally. 
But I seem to remember that you fiddled with this before regarding the
issue below and it doesn't quite work that way for squeaksource.

Unless I'm remembering incorrectly we have never been able to work out a
setup for daemontools that will work with VNC because of the assumption
daemontools makes that there is a single parent process that is
responsible for any subprocesses.

Hence vnc support has to be handled manually.

Ken

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [Box-Admins] Re: [squeak-dev] source.squeak.org
> inaccessible
> From: Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de>
> Date: Tue, March 29, 2011 4:52 pm
> To: Ken Causey <ken at kencausey.com>
> Cc: Squeak Hosting Support <box-admins at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
> 
> 
> Ken, do you remember how vncserver was supposed to get started? Did we drop an init script maybe?
> 
> - Bert -
> 
> On 22.03.2011, at 19:31, Ken Causey wrote:
> 
> > Thanks.  I guess this was an unannounced/unintentional reboot then? 
> > Perhaps I should have restarted the server when we passed 6 months
> > uptime again, oh well.  Hopefully we will have moved on by the time 6
> > months have passed again.
> > 
> > Ken
> > 
> >> -------- Original Message --------
> >> Subject: [Box-Admins] Re: [squeak-dev] source.squeak.org inaccessible
> >> From: Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de>
> >> Date: Mon, March 21, 2011 5:07 pm
> >> To: Squeak Hosting Support <box-admins at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
> >> Cc: "Randal L. Schwartz" <merlyn at stonehenge.com>
> >> 
> >> 
> >> On 21.03.2011, at 23:03, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
> >> 
> >>>>>>>> "Bert" == Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de> writes:
> >>> 
> >>> Bert> Looks like the server rebooted a few hours ago and not everything
> >>> Bert> came back up.
> >>> 
> >>> And just because I have root there doesn't mean I understand everything
> >>> yet. Sorry folks. :(
> >>> 
> >>> Paging Ken to the White Courtesy Phone...
> >> 
> >> It's working now.
> >> 
> >> Somehow vncserver was not started. And I forgot how it was supposed to get run, so I made squeaksource run headlessly for now.
> >> 
> >> - Bert -
> >