What does this line mean?

M$ISBS · 12-31-2006, 05:45 PM

I see this when I do ps aux. What does it mean. I killed it and nothing visible happend.

shark 3939 0.0 1.1 25092 12000 ? S 02:47 0:00 kdeinit: kio_file file /tmp/ksocket-shark/klauncherlwErjc.slave-socket /tmp/ksocket-shark

acid_kewpie · 01-01-2007, 02:50 AM

nothing at all to do with networking. moved to Linux - Newbie. please try to use more insightful thread titles in future too.

M$ISBS · 01-01-2007, 04:12 PM

Anyone have any idea?

btmiller · 01-01-2007, 04:36 PM

It's a KDE component and part of kio. From what I could gather from a little Googling KIO handles things like detecting mounted filesystems and handling file operations. Killing it was probably not a good idea.

Electro · 01-01-2007, 04:45 PM

It just a socket for one of the programs of KDE. KDE is messy and it has a security risk because it uses /tmp. Sockets in KDE makes KDE programs share data with other KDE programs. If you are paranoid, I suggest using knoppix to run a rootkit scan. If you update the rootkit signatures before you ran the scan and it came up with nothing, you should not be alarmed of the process line in ps.

A KDE developer will give you more detail information.

M$ISBS · 01-01-2007, 08:59 PM

Thanks for the replies.