Re: [gentoo-user] Weather thingy using up my network, ALL THE TIME.

[Mick]

On Sunday 02 Sep 2012 08:54:27 Dale wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> I have this little weather "applet" thingy down at the bottom of my
> desktop in the thing I think they call the panel.  Anyway, the weather
> thing has been sending something for HOURS now.  I have logged out of
> KDE, reset the network and even the router just to see if it would die.
> As soon as I login or the router comes back up, it start sending data
> again.  I can't get it to stop.  As a last resort, I took the thing off
> my panel thingy.  It still sends data like crazy.

I clicked on my Weather Forecast applet settings and it also started sending 
packets to wetter.com - despite the fact that I have set it to connect to the 
BBC weather RSS feed.  Hmm ...


> Does anyone know how to kill this thing?  I'd like to surf the net
> without this thing hogging up my DSL connection.

It's not using that many packets, but I agree that it is annoying.

The solution is to kill the kio_http that was running it.  Use ps, top, lsof 
as you prefer to find which PID you should kill.


> While I am at it.  I'm supposed to get my weather stuff from NOAA or at
> least that is where it came from ages ago.  Ever since I went from KDE3
> to KDE4, it wants to come from wetter.com which doesn't work to begin
> with.  This is what I think it is doing to my network.  It is trying to
> get data that doesn't exist to begin with so it just keeps trying.
> Anybody know how to beat this thing silly?  By the way, using iftop,
> that is where all this traffic is going to.

I am not sure if wetter.com is hardcoded somewhere.  In my 
.kde4/share/config/plasma-desktop-appletsrc I can see my BBC URI in the 
weather applet settings, but nothing about wetter.com.

-- 
Regards,
Mick