[luau] RH 8.0

Ray Strode halfline at hawaii.rr.com
Wed Nov 6 11:04:01 PST 2002


> 1.open a shell and run PS,I get nothing (two entries)but there is a 
> GUI utility called sys monitor that seems to replace it

ps by default only shows processes running from the current user/current 
terminal

ps -ef
or
ps aux
will do what you want i think.

> 2.I set up a root and user account; to use KDE KPPP from the user 
> account I am prompted for a root passwrd.Does this compromise security?

Probably not.  ppp needs root access to be able to access the modem.

> When I start Kppp from user it doesn't dock to the task bar and infact
> locks all action there--the desktop icons are still active,so I have 
> found I can go to this sys monitor and kill the running Kppp,it says it
> is killing it(and I get a message from Kppp saying can't start) but 
> then I exit to normal operation,where the modem icon of Kppp
> has docked to the taskbar,all icons are now again active. 
> Strange,anyone?  

No clue.

--Ray




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