as described in [1] running Selenium RC on a headless Linux is pretty easy to achieve. Essentially this requires these commands:
$ Xvfb :99 -ac &
$ export DISPLAY=:99
$ java -jar selenium-server.jar &
So how can I provide this right after the start of the server?
The system is a Ubuntu Server 10.04.
Cheers
[1] http://www.alittlemadness.com/2008/03/05/running-selenium-headless/