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Re: [SLE] who vs w output [SOLVED]
- From: Scott Leighton <helphand@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2005 10:20:34 -0700
- Message-id: <200506191020.34991.helphand@xxxxxxxxxxx>
On Sunday 19 June 2005 10:01 am, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
>
> ps aux | grep pts\/[6,7]
>
helphand@helphand:~> ps aux | grep pts\/[6,7]
helphand@helphand:~>
Nope, nothing.
Anders made the following comment...
>'who' just reads from the utmp or wtmp databases. If they didn't log out
>'properly' this database will be out of sync and 'who' will still show the
>user as logged in.
So, basically that explains the strange who results.
I'll mark it up as 'mystery solved'.
Scott
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>
> ps aux | grep pts\/[6,7]
>
helphand@helphand:~> ps aux | grep pts\/[6,7]
helphand@helphand:~>
Nope, nothing.
Anders made the following comment...
>'who' just reads from the utmp or wtmp databases. If they didn't log out
>'properly' this database will be out of sync and 'who' will still show the
>user as logged in.
So, basically that explains the strange who results.
I'll mark it up as 'mystery solved'.
Scott
--
POPFile, the OpenSource EMail Classifier
http://popfile.sourceforge.net/
Linux 2.6.11.4-21.7-default x86_64
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