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Hello all; I have recently installed Debian Linux on a home PC as a server, and I must say I am enjoying it thus far! I have installed VNC on it, and I know how to use it, but I need for it to run on startup so that I can access it from a location without keyboard, mouse, video, etc. I have tried many complex tutorials, and I doubt it can be so hard: How can I make it so that a single command runs on the OS startup (user logon)? I have it now so that it automatically logs my user in and I would like it so that "vnc4server :1" is typed into the terminal every time the computer logs on. Thank you in advance! Infinitus

we probably understand it better, if you tell us what you know? shows command lines, outputs. if you want to access to desktop on a remote box, vnc if you want to run applications from a remote box, try ssh XForward [quote=Infinitus]Hello all; I have recently installed Debian Linux on a home PC as a server, and I must say I am enjoying it thus far! I have installed VNC on it, and I know how to use it, but I need for it to run on startup so that I can access it from a location without keyboard, mouse, video, etc. I have tried many complex tutorials, and I doubt it can be so hard: How can I make it so that a single command runs on the OS startup (user logon)? I have it now so that it automatically logs my user in and I would like it so that "vnc4server :1" is typed into the terminal every time the computer logs on. Thank you in advance! Infinitus[/quote]

Well... at startup using vnc can be painful if you have to manually invoke the remote vncserver everytime you need to log. The best possible solution I see here is using XDMCP for remote logins at startup. XDMCP is inbuilt in all the popular distros . try the link before for more info http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-HOWTO/XDMCP-HOWTO.html