System Monitor/Services

[Asif Lodhi]

Sasha Tsykin wrote:

> There is a difference between the gnome-keyring-daemon, SSHD and 
> HTTPS. SSHD is a daemon which runs a particular type of secure 
> connections, SSH and corresponds to the SSH programs. HTTPS is just a 
> version of the HTTP protocol, and thus requires no extra program to 
> connect to it besides one which is aware of the HTTP protocol, for 
> example Mozilla firefox, or thunderbird. Similarly, the 
> gnome-keyring-daemon just protects passwords, and since thunderbird at 
> least keeps it's passwords itself,and doesn't farm that task out to 
> third party applications, it doesn't need it to connect to gmail or 
> any other secure server. Other mail browsers, for example KMail, do 
> rely on other programs for these tasks.
>
> As for Bonobo, killing it has no effect because it only keeps records. 
> Like KNotify, for example. It keeps records, and occasionally pops up 
> messages, but that's it. It does not in any way interact with other 
> programs, and thus they do not rely on it for anything. You are 
> incurring no risk by ending it, but it is relatively pointless because 
> as you have observed, it restarts itself regularly.
>
> Asif Lodhi wrote:
>
>> ubuntu-users-request at lists.ubuntu.com wrote:
>>
>> I am curious about these services because I can connect to GMail 
>> (which logs you in via HTTPS) even though I "end" both of the above 
>> services - gnome-keyring-daemon & SSHD.  In addition, Bonobo 
>> Activation Server keeps starts again the moment I run another app 
>> from Gnome but "end"ing it doesn't do any harm to anything.  OR am I 
>> incurring some kind of a risk by "end"ing these services from System 
>> Monitor?
>
>

Thank you very much, Sasha.  I am clear about these programs now.

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Thanks again,

Asif