Can I turn off the VNC daemon on my server?

Posted June 18, 2014

I use the cheapest VPS option DO provide running Debian 7.0. I only connect to my server using SSH from my desktop console, also running Debian. Since my VPS has such a small amount of RAM, I would like to turn off the VNC daemon running on the server.

Can I do this? Is this safe to do so? Whats the best way to turn it off and keep it off?

Thanks.

milktheelephant

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Andrew SB • June 19, 2014

What VNC program did you install? How did you enable it to start on boot? If you used an init script, run: <pre> update-rc.d -f vncserver remove </pre>