number of users

Alan Swartz kde at swartzes.com
Sat Aug 20 13:31:57 UTC 2005


Derek Broughton wrote:
> Alan Swartz wrote:
> 
> 
>>Ben Miller wrote:
>>
>>>When I run the 'uptime' command, I'm shown that there are two users on
>>>my system. Running 'users' shows me logged in twice. What are possible
>>>reasons for that?
>>>
>>
>>If you are running uptime in a terminal, you are also logged in through
>>the terminal.
> 
> 
> That can't be right.  I'm logged in via vnc & kdm, _and_ I have a terminal
> open.  And I'm logged in via ssh, and I still only show two users.  
> 
> Run "ps u" to see what those two users are doing.
open up multiple term windows and count the number of users as you add a
window. My count keeps going up by one.





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