I take it you're running KDE?  I believe KDM is the K Desktop Manager.  :0.0 
is the name of your X Window display.  Since it's running on your local 
machine, it can be abbreviated to the :0.0; if you were on a remote machine 
and wanted to run a program on your local display, you'd use the command,

export DISPLAY=<your IP address>:0.0

Thus, when you kill the process, you're killing your X Window display session.

Mike

Ken Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:

> I know its goofy to reply to my own message, but I have an addition.
> 
> I searched for files containing '-:0', and I came up with:
> /tmp/ksocket-ken/kdeinit-:0.0
> 
> 
> Ken Hawkins wrote:
> > 
> > I guess a little more detail is needed..
> > 
> > This is a laptop running MDK 7.2. I am the only user, and I generally
> > don't leave it unattended. I have lately installed Netscape 4.78, and
> > RealPlayer 8.0.
> > 
> > I haven't been security paranoid, but I never login as root; I always su
> > for a task, then exit.
> > 
> > Having said that, I am concerned about someone hacking my system...but I
> > don't want to blow off and rebuild my OS unless I have good reason.
> > 
> > Ken
> > 
> > Ralph Forsythe wrote:
> > >
> > > I'm just gonna throw this out there since I have never seen this either,
> > > but has your system's security been compromised?  Usually stuff like 
that
> > > comes from someone running something you don't know about.  Especially
> > > given that it's running as root (and I have never heard of a system-
level
> > > program like that), might be something you want to check into.
> > >
> > > Just a thought, it could be something benign too...
> > >
> > > - Ralph Forsythe
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >
> > > On Thu, 25 Oct 2001, Ken Hawkins wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > > I was viewing running processes, and I found the following line. I am
> > > > concerned, as I don't recall ever seeing this before. Any ideas about
> > > > what this is and what to do about it would be appreciated.
> > > >
> > > > PID   User    Pri     Size    Resident        Stat    CPU     Mem     
Time    CMD
> > > > 2282  root    0       6916    6916            S       0.0     4.2     
0.40s   -:0
> > > 
>                                                                             
  ^^^^^
> > > 
>                                                                             
  THIS
> > > >
> > > > is what concerns me. If I kill the process, my entire window manager
> > > > session
> > > > restarts.
> > > >
> > > > The NAME of the process listed under details is KDM. The command
> > > > however, has a rather bizarre name.
> 
> 



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