RVDowning Posted January 6, 2006 Report Share Posted January 6, 2006 Having a problem in Mandriva 2006 terminating a process in Gnome System Monitor for those processes that require root privileges to kill or stop. It seems to me that in LE2005 it used to popup a box asking for root's password, and then would allow the process to be killed or stopped. In 2006 I don't get that popup box for the password. Any ideas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uralmasha Posted January 8, 2006 Report Share Posted January 8, 2006 Well, if you only care about killing the process, you can use the root console. "top" command will show you all your processes, pretty much like in Gnome sys.monitor, which you can order and filter any way you like (type "?" for help). For instance "k" will initiate the killing dialogue, "u root" will show only root's processes. I don't know how to make the Gnome sys.monitor to ask for the root's password and whether this is possible at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gowator Posted January 8, 2006 Report Share Posted January 8, 2006 You can also just open a root CLI and type kill -9 pid where PID is the PID given by gnome for that process of you can use ps -ef or ps -aux and see which processes you want to kill. Redirecting to more and grep to find stuff. i.e. ps -ef | grep <uid> | grep -v <someprocess to ignore> | more Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RVDowning Posted January 9, 2006 Author Report Share Posted January 9, 2006 Well, I know how to kill a process. I was just questioning what seemed to be different behaviour in Gnome System Monitor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lavaeolus Posted January 9, 2006 Report Share Posted January 9, 2006 (edited) As I tested it after reading your post I have the same behavior, have configured it then to start via gksu as root, now it will ask me for the password at startup and I can access all processes (I'm just to lazy for the CLI :D ) Edited January 9, 2006 by lavaeolus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RVDowning Posted January 9, 2006 Author Report Share Posted January 9, 2006 Thanks for the suggestion. I used kdesu since I'm using kde. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.
Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible.