[SLL] Quick question about "who"

[Mike Schuh]

On Wed, 27 Aug 2008, Mike Stunes wrote:

>Is there some reason why the number of users reported by "uptime" and
>the number reported by "who" would be different?
>
>stunes at homebox:pts/0 ~ % uptime
> 01:20:34 up 9 days,  2:13,  2 users,  load average: 0.08, 0.11, 0.12
>stunes at homebox:pts/0 ~ % who
>stunes   :0           2008-08-27 01:08
>stunes at homebox:pts/0 ~ %

On my system (FC8) they are the same.

>Logging again at a console made uptime show 3 users, and who listed 2.
>Anyone know what's going on?

Possibly a rogue process?

What does this return:

  ps -ef | grep -v mingetty |awk '{print $1,$6}' | \
	egrep -v '\?|^UID TTY$' | sort -u | wc -l

(leave off the wc to see who's logged in)

One of the "users" on my system is root, running /usr/bin/X   Perhaps your
version of who does not show this user?

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Mike Schuh - Seattle, Washington USA
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