'w' Shows 2 users lists one

Derek Broughton news at pointerstop.ca
Mon Sep 1 03:42:13 UTC 2008


John Hubbard wrote:

> jhubbard at jhubbard-server:~$ w
>  10:54:48 up 32 days,  2:45,  2 users,  load average: 0.32, 0.27, 0.16
> USER     TTY      FROM              LOGIN@   IDLE   JCPU   PCPU WHAT
> jhubbard :0       -                Mon21   ?xdm?  14:52   0.10s /bin/sh
> /etc/xdg/xfce4/xinitrc -- /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc
> 
> Why does the w command list that I have two users currently logged in
> but only show one.  I realize that there are actually many more than 2
> users logged in (all users with a uid <1000) but either all or none of
> them should be shown.
> 

Beats me - my system tells me 2, also, but there really are - I have this
session on ":0" and a console login on tty1, and w shows both.
-- 
derek





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