number of users

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On Sat, 2005-08-20 at 16:33 -0500, Tommy Trussell wrote:
> On 8/20/05, Ben Miller <wheelscribe at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >>>>>When I run the 'uptime' command, I'm shown that there are two users 
> > >>>>>my system. Running 'users' shows me logged in twice. 
> 
> > >>open up multiple term windows and count the number of users as you add a
> > >>window. My count keeps going up by one.
> 
> > Thanks for the information. For the record, I currently have three
> > terminal sessions open and my users command reports four.
> 
> My guess (from reading the uptime information on my system using the
> "ps u" command is that the first user is the X session (so most
> processes start underneath that user) and then each new shell session
> adds one user to the number.
> 
> To test my theory, try logging out from the X session and start a
> session using a virtual terminal and see if you get the listing down
> to 1 user. If it turns out the login screen STILL uses a user session,
> you'd have to kill off your display manager to get down to one user.
> That would also free up resources on the machine that you could use
> from ANOTHER machine on your network.
> 


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