Uptime and w failing to report correct info?

Tyler Littlefield tyler at tysdomain.com
Sat Jul 25 13:24:39 EDT 2009


if your using screen it shows a person per open window.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Zachary Kline" <kline.zachary at gmail.com>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, July 25, 2009 11:01 AM
Subject: Uptime and w failing to report correct info?


> Hi All,
> I'm curious as to why uptime and w both seem to think there are more
> users on my system than actually are logged in.  The actual time
> callculation seems accurate. 
> I'm running archlinux with Speakup.  As far as I'm concerned everything
> else on this system works as expected.  I'm just wondering about this
> tiny inconsistency.
> I've read up on utmp and wtmp, but don't know what programs besides the
> login program might have cause to mess with them.  
> Any info would be appreciated.
> Best and thanks,
> Zack.
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