Re: [Sheflug] Only slightly concerned about that extra user on my system

[David Bottrill <david [at] xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 26 May 2005 16:02, lesleyb wrote:
> Hiya
>
> Using gkrellm 2.2.2 with SuSE 9.2 on my workstation, I get a report of 6
> users.  A 'ps -ef | less' and a quick count up shows : me, root, nobody,
> lp and postfix.  I count that as 5 users.
>
> I'm not happy with nobody being there and will be looking into that, but
>    I wonder is anyone else seeing this with gkrellm/Suse 9.2 ?  And/or
> does anyone have any idea why this might be happening or if there is
> another way to check the number of users on the system?
>

Try the command 'who'

You will probably find two instances of yourself.

for example on my machine:
david [at] sixtyfour:~> who
david    :0           2005-05-26 15:41 (console)
david    pts/0        2005-05-26 15:41
david    pts/1        2005-05-26 15:47


David

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