On 08/11/2016 10:28 PM, Markus Slopianka wrote:
If running it as root makes sense, please tell me why.
I tell you three ytimes If you're not root you can't kill processes you don't own If you're not root you can't kill processes you don't own If you're not root you can't kill processes you don't own Please read the man page for the various forms of 'kill; kill(2) killpg(2) tkill(2) tgkill(2) systemd.kill(5) On a single user system there are processes owned by root that you can't kill unless you're root on a single user system there are processes not owned by the use or by root that you can't kill # ps -ef | egrep -v "root|anton" UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD rpc 1103 1 0 07:57 ? 00:00:00 /sbin/rpcbind -w -f avahi 1324 1 0 07:57 ? 00:00:00 avahi-daemon: running [Mainbox.local] nscd 1329 1 0 07:57 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/nscd message+ 1348 1 0 07:57 ? 00:00:00 /bin/dbus-daemon --system --address=systemd: --nofork --nopidfile --systemd-activation dovecot 1676 1665 0 07:57 ? 00:00:00 dovecot/anvil [1 connections] dnsmasq 1693 1 0 07:57 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/dnsmasq --log-async --enable-dbus --keep-in-foreground ftp 1696 1 0 07:57 ? 00:00:00 proftpd: (accepting connections) postfix 1813 1812 0 07:57 ? 00:00:00 pickup -l -t fifo -u postfix 1814 1812 0 07:57 ? 00:00:00 qmgr -l -t fifo -u ntp 1846 1 0 07:57 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/ntpd -p /var/run/ntp/ntpd.pid -g -u ntp:ntp -i /var/lib/ntp -c /etc/ntp.conf polkitd 2269 1 0 07:59 ? 00:00:00 /usr/lib/polkit-1/polkitd --no-debug colord 2286 1 0 07:59 ? 00:00:00 /usr/lib/colord rtkit 2369 1 0 07:59 ? 00:00:00 /usr/lib/rtkit/rtkit-daemon dovecot 4094 1665 0 08:35 ? 00:00:00 dovecot/auth [0 wait, 0 passdb, 0 userdb] And at that, I'm not running any web services (Think:Apache) or databases. On a multi-user system there will be process owned by those other users. If you're not root you can't shut those down either. If users could shit down other users' processes there would be chaos! I've mentioned this before. What is it about this that you don't understand? -- To mathematicians, solutions mean finding the answers. But to chemists, solutions are things that are still all mixed up. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kde+owner@opensuse.org