sberaud wrote: > Hi Bill, yes I was considering just such an action. It was one thing > to go insane figuring this stuff out when I was 30, but at 41, I'm not > so patient anymore. I used to love this stuff, now I just need to get > back to work. > > The problem is I'm in a catch22 situation. I can not afford to hire > somebody until this contract pays, and this contact won't pay until I > get this done. :) Ah the life of a foolish entrepreneur. > Yeah... the real problem is I have only ever managed to make VNC work > using Krfb, which of course requires X and KDE running. Setting up the > VNC server as a stand alone service the way it should be has always > failed (don't know why as it works just dandy on the IIS server - I > have checked everything from firewall to sysvinit and even thought > tightVNC is supposed to start it never does and the only way to get it > to do so is use the GUI as root... not a good idea, or Krfb, which > requires the machine to be logged in as a user automatically as it > does not launch before X... also not a good idea). > > Krfb in Mandriva or SuSE with xorg, brings the machine to its knees > with over 70% CPU usage as the constant minimum. With a 350mhz machine > that does not leave a lot of time slices for other processes (like > trying to pipe a 100mbps network which the machine also seems to > struggle with, but is ok as long as VNC is off). The older VNC on the > old Mandrake Distro seems to be light and works pretty fast. > > All that being said VNC is a secondary consideration as I really only > ever use it to run the GUI version of the drakconf tools, some of > which MDK oddly did not make available on the text version of > drakconf, which given MDK has stopped issuing updates for 9.1 (so much > for "5 years of support") is almost never now. Just about everythign. > > I am using this old EQ as I just don't have the business base to > afford additional hardware for the time being. > <snip> > Yes, indeed. I agree. If anybody wants to send me an estimate with an > idea of costs I will consider it seriously. > It really is a simple setup, but it seems to be beyond me. I have > decided I am not going to configure email for the time being, so its > just bind and apache and virtual hosts. Rod: I don't have much hands-on with Mandrake/driva, so can you help? It's been a long time for me to do things in a RedHattish way. I can't imagine this being more than three hours or so. If you can't help, I can certainly set up a Debian box. -- Bill