Thanks for the Virus.

[John Culleton]

On Tuesday 17 March 2009 10:00:57 am Jonas Norlander wrote:
> 2009/3/17 John Culleton <john at wexfordpress.com>:
> > Some basic Linux tools may help you locate the problem.
> > From a command line and preferably from a root console
> > session
> > (<ctl><alt>F2) Use "top" and "ps -x" to search for a
> > job running that is eating up too many resources.  use
> > "kill 9999" (using the correct job number of course) to
> > remove that errant program.  Viruses are rare in Linux
> > system but I suppose one could exist on yours.  But
> > there may be a legitimate  program that is corrupt and
> > in a race condition.
> >
> > If you don't have a password for root yet  go to a
> > command line, then run
> > su passwd root
> > and follow the dialog create one. Note spelling of
> > passwd.
>
> I wouldn't recommend to activate the root password as
> thats not the "Kubuntu2 way, it works perfectly with sudo
> for CLI and kdesudo for GUI programs and starting to
> temperer with with root for a inexperienced user like
> Steven is not to recommended. If he has some process
> running amok he don't need to be root to kill it as he
> probably is the owner. Don't complicate things that don't
> has to.
Probably is not certainly.  He may have some behind the 
scenes system daemon that has become corrupted and is 
running amok. The availability of root does not handicap 
other activity in any way.  He can and should run as an 
ordinary user in most circumstances, just as I do. 

I consider the restriction on the root password silly and 
not in the spirit of Linux.  After I put up a Kubuntu 
partition an early change was to establish my own root 
password. But to each his/her own.  I need a Kubuntu 
partition in order to get the latest versions of certain 
software packages, e.g., Inkscape, without tears. But I 
prefer the greater freedom and transparency of Slackware 
for everyday use. The availability when needed of the root 
identity is IMO a liberation and not a complication.

To each their own. 
-- 
John Culleton
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