--- Kees Bergwerf
Have you tried 'man kxmlrpcd' ? or 'man dcopserver' etc ? That is why I asked it here.
From the name of the first one, I'd guess that it's a KDE implementation of an XML Remote Procedure Call daemon. It's a KDE feature. DCOP is definitely a part of KDE. Such is the price for having a powerful, feature-rich desktop environment. If you want to get rid of this stuff, try setting WINDOWMANAGER=/usr/X11R6/bin/twm; much of your PS list will cease to appear.;)
I have tried killing a few programs but it did not help yet. Perhaps I must try some more :-)
Randomly killing things won't do you much good. Many daemons that KDE starts will respawn themselves, and some, when killed, may keep KDE from functioning. Same thing for other processes.
I don't know. Sendmail is running now and it says:
Initializing SMTP port. (sendmail) done
What do the sendmail logs say? This will be most useful. Try zeroing your sendmail log files (logrotate does this nicely), restart the mail service, and look at the logs. Anything that doesn't look right should be a matter of great suspicion; try posting it here (inline text) or to a web site somewhere and provide us linkage (the latter is preferred). ===== -- -=|JP|=- Hit me! - http://www.xanga.com/cowboydren/ Jon Pennington | Debian 2.3 -o) cowboydren @ yahoo . com | Auto Enthusiast /\\ Kansas City, MO, USA | ICQ UIN 69 67 29 31 _\_V __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. http://personals.yahoo.com