You may never need this, but if you administer servers remotely via the built in Apple VNC, it is the best trick ever.
However, the VNC service occasionally crashes, and locks my session. It also refuses any more VNC logins. This is particularly frustrating when I am off site! Apple has analyzed this and has no explanation or fix.
Here solution howto fix it: If SSH access is enabled on the server, you can connect to the server via an SSH client and run this command:
sudo /System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/Resources/kickstart -restart -agent
You must log in with
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tags: crash,
ssh,
vnc
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