Various Stuffs on VNC Server Setting

Basic steps to get vnc server up and running on Linux

1. Update the /etc/sysconfig/vncservers for all the port you want to open for user.
   
   Sample:
   VNCSERVERS="1:user1 99:root"
   VNCSERVERARGS[1]="-geometry 1024x768"
   VNCSERVERARGS[99]="-geometry 1024x768"
   
   
2. Run vncpasswd for each user.
3. Edit $(USER_HOME)/.vnc/xstartup for enable GUI desktop.
   Nothing but 2 lines to uncomment:
   

   # Uncomment the following two lines for normal desktop:

   unset SESSION_MANAGER
   exec /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc
   

4. Restart service
   service vncserver restart
   

Fixing "locale.Error: unsupported locale setting"

The system's locale setting somehow broken, fixed it with change to LC_ALL.
Original solution found here: http://plog.tcc.edu.tw/post/38/1560
Keep here just in case.

[root@test-linux lte]# system-config-network
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/sbin/system-config-network-gui", line 42, in ?
locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, "")
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/locale.py", line 381, in setlocale
return _setlocale(category, locale)
locale.Error: unsupported locale setting

[root@test-linux xxx]# locale
locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

[root@test-linux xxx]# export LC_ALL=C
[root@test-linux xxx]# locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="C"
LC_NUMERIC="C"
LC_TIME="C"
LC_COLLATE="C"
LC_MONETARY="C"
LC_MESSAGES="C"
LC_PAPER="C"
LC_NAME="C"
LC_ADDRESS="C"
LC_TELEPHONE="C"
LC_MEASUREMENT="C"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="C"
LC_ALL=C

Candlelight vigil for RPK, Teresa Kok and all ISA detainees

This post is in support to the candlelight vigil event on 14-Sep-2008 for RPK, Teresa Kok and all who are detained under the Malaysia’s draconian ISA law, which allow detention without trial.

See more detail here: http://mt.m2day.org/2008/content/view/12689/84/