Just a guess, but doesn,t cron and other programs like that login as user nobody? I am curious as to this. NeoFax -----Original Message----- From: Praise [mailto:praisetazio@tiscalinet.it] Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2001 5:45 PM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: [SLE] Strange thing Hi list, I use "w" to see what users are logged in my systems, but sometimes I got strange output: 5:41pm up 16 days, 15 min, 5 users, load average: 0.02, 0.01, 0.00 USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT praise tty1 - 5:40pm 0.00s 0.45s 0.04s w fraghi pts/0 151.17.72.250 4:40pm 1:00m 0.18s 0.14s -bash praise pts/2 anarki.praisenet 12:52pm 3:40m 1:36 0.13s -bash Why does it say there are 5 users when I see only 3 users?? Moreover, if every user logs out, the 2 hidden users remain. What does it mean? Tazio -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq and the archives at http://lists.suse.com