number of users

Ben Miller wheelscribe at gmail.com
Sat Aug 20 16:37:24 UTC 2005


Vram wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-08-20 at 09:31 -0400, Alan Swartz wrote:
> 
>>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.
>>
> 
> 
> Mine goes up by two's
> 
> Vram


Thanks for the information. For the record, I currently have three 
terminal sessions open and my users command reports four.

== Ben




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