[Vino] Re: Canonical Begins Tracking Ubuntu Installations

[NoOp]

On 08/13/2010 03:44 AM, Alan Pope wrote:
> On 13 August 2010 11:35, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Any word from Canonical on whether this is expressly opt-in, like
>> PopCon? (Which I always enable.)
>>
> 
> For those machines that have the package installed, it puts an
> /etc/cron.daily/send-census on the machine. So it looks "enabled by
> default" on those OEM installs that have it.
> 
>> What other phone-home functions are enabled by default? NTP sync to
>> ntp.ubuntu.com and checking the repos for updates - anything else?
>>
> 
> Remote desktop phones back to the upstream developer and lets them
> know you have VNC port open which alarms me a bit.
> 
> https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vino/+bug/608701
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Here is the file:
$ cat /usr/share/vino/webservices
# This file lists all webservices URLs that can be used by vino to provide
# a connectivity test.

Comment out the http's:

# Jonh Wendell
http://www.bani.com.br/vino/vino.php
and
# Jonh Wendell
http://www.bani.com.br/vino/vino.php

and add:

http://localhost

Note: if you don't have anything there, vino-server goes into max cpu
mode until you kill it.

If you really want to know if your port 5900 is working, and what your
external IP address is, just point a browser to:
http://www.realvnc.com/cgi-bin/nettest.cgi