[Sussex] Disabling Xvnc the RedHat way

[Steve Dobson]

On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 05:31:54PM +0000, Steve Dobson wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 05:23:41PM +0000, Thomas Adam wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 05:16:56PM +0000, Steve Dobson wrote:
> > > on it too. As the system is not meant to be used in this way what is
> > > the correct way to stop the remote X loggin server for RedHat? I just
> > > want to put this in my report.
> > 
> > Do you mean temporarily, or until further notice?  You might find the
> > services(1) program useful for this.
> 
> Well until further notice - I don't want it restarted after a reboot for
> example.
> 
> I had a look for services(1) and couldn't find it.  There was:
> 
>   1) a servicesconf but I found no man page to tell me what it did, and
> 
>   2) there was redhat-config-services but this is a graphic program and
>      I'm not sure they have an X display they can use.
> 

I think I may have found the command line way:

   # chkconfig --level 3 vncserver off

As vncserver is only on in run level 3.

Can someone confirm and that [on] is the way to re-enabled it.

Steve
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