hi civileme,

thanks so much for enlighting me about it. i guess i
will have to upgrade the default KDE in MDK 8. 

cheers,
dianne

--- civileme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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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