I am not civilme, and I haven't put alot of effort into the investigation, but this does not appear to be "not doing anything". If I had to guess I would say it is monitoring something, it has stdout and stderr pointing to .xsession-errors, and has a bunch of pipes open. Has anybody considered porting truss to linux ;-) mg On Thursday 16 August 2001 07:24, DM wrote: > follow up again =( > > civilme? any comments on this? its not eating up > resources or anything but its quite annoying and > confusing to see that there is /bin/cat running and > its not doing anything ... you dont know what it is > concatenating? just a simple 'yes, its a bug and MDK > is working on it' will suffice. however, if you can > provide a fix, it will be better. > > dianne > > --- "J. C. Woods" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > DM wrote: > > > following up on this ... can anybody from > > > > MandrakeSoft > > > > > answer what this /bin/cat is for? why is it > > > > initiated > > > > > by kwrited ? is this a bug? > > > > > > --- DM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Here! Here! Good question. Any thoughts, Mandrake? > > > > drjung > > > > -- > > J. Craig Woods > > UNIX SA > > > > -Art is the illusion of spontaneity- > > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from > > MandrakeSoft? > > > Go to http://wwww.mandrakestore.com > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger > http://phonecard.yahoo.com/ ---------------------------------------- Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; name="message.footer" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: ----------------------------------------
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