It is KDE 2.1.1 and I am not sure whether kwrited or kdeinit starts it but it is 
visible when
one does a w on a terminal from kde (not from other window managers).

It was apparently an error monitor transmission to xsession-errors and a temporary 
measure by one
of our KDE team without telling the others because the team leader is unaware of what 
it is for.  I think it
may have been a dodge to get Mandrake Control Center to open without crashing and 
without using
a Terminal  (another legacy from the broken default theme from Nautilus/Eazel since 
our MCC was using
GTK+ widgets).

It does not appear on kde 2.2.

Civileme



On Thursday 16 August 2001 11:24, DM wrote:
> hi mike,
>
> thanks for checking what it is concatenating ... i
> dont see that /bin/cat on other KDE installations of
> other distros that is why im asking Civilme (mandrake)
> if it was a bug or not. if not, what is it for?
>
> dianne
>
> --- mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 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
> > > >
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