Remote administration of FC 10 headless servers.

[Wendell Nichols]

Steve Ellis wrote:
> Mark Haney wrote:
>> Tim Waugh wrote:
>>  
>>> Mark Haney wrote:
>>>    
>>>> And on a side note, you can also use vnc to do GUI type things like
>>>> installing apps and updates as well.
>>>>       
>>> No, this hasn't worked for me on Fedora 10 for a while (yes, bugzilla
>>> report filed).
>>>
>>> Is it actually working for you?  Are you using the 'vncserver'
>>> initscript to start the VNC session?
>>>
>>> Tim.
>>> */
>>>
>>>     
>>
>> Yes and yes.  It works perfectly for me.  I've had no trouble at all.
>>
>>
>>   
> Like Tim and unlike Mark, I also have trouble with this--I believe 
> this is a selinux-enabled problem with respect to PackageKit/PolicyKit 
> and VNC sessions, at least based on the googling that I've been able 
> to do.  I've tried changing policy from my actual console (which is 
> inconveniently 7 feet off the ground in the garage), but have thus far 
> been unable to have much luck--I haven't tried completely wide-open 
> policies though.  I did install yumex for finding installables, 
> however.   I use 'yum update' from the command line for regular updating.
>
> -se
>
I don't think its selinux cause I disabled it and still can't use the 
gui package manager.  I'd file a bug, but its so obviously intentionally 
designed behavior that I doubt they'd take it seriously.
stuck with the cmd line... shame they wasted time makeing the gui...
wcn