CentOS - Aug 2016 - XRDB not in our centos6.8 build

I am a bit baffled on this.

We recently rebuilt all our servers to CentOS release 6.8 (Final)  from 
a prior 6.x centos release.  We ran into a couple of problems such as 
Java not working (just had to yum install java). It was installed, but 
unable to create a java machine, until I yum install java solved the 
problem.

But now a user (the big boss) is receiving xrdp errors. And it appears 
that xrdp is not installed on these newly built servers.

I googled xrdp and was unable to decipher if it is needed in our 
environment (we use sas which does use X11 graphics on the servers to 
export graphs).

If it is needed, wondering why it not included in the groups we have 
always used for kickstart.

When would I need xrdp? or is it one of the leftovers here from a bygone 
era?


Thanks for your response.

On 2016-08-10, Dan Hyatt
<dhyatt at dsgmail.wustl.edu> wrote:
>
> I am a bit baffled on this.
>
> We recently rebuilt all our servers to CentOS release 6.8 (Final)
> from a prior 6.x centos release.  We ran into a couple of problems
> such as Java not working (just had to yum install java). It was
> installed, but unable to create a java machine, until I yum install
> java solved the problem.
>
> But now a user (the big boss) is receiving xrdp errors. And it appears
> that xrdp is not installed on these newly built servers.
>
> I googled xrdp and was unable to decipher if it is needed in our
> environment (we use sas which does use X11 graphics on the servers to
> export graphs).
>
> If it is needed, wondering why it not included in the groups we have
> always used for kickstart.
>
> When would I need xrdp? or is it one of the leftovers here from a
> bygone era?
>
>
> Thanks for your response.
The package description (yum info xrdp): "The goal of this project is to
provide a fully functional Linux terminal server, capable of accepting
connections from rdesktop and Microsoft's own terminal server / remote
desktop clients." If you connect to the server(s) using Windows clients,
then it's likely that you need this package.

I notice that xrdp is in the EPEL repository rather than the standard
CentOS repositories. That might explain why it is not installed via
kickstart.

-- 

Liam