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From: Alex Hudson <home [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 16:02:54 +0100
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On Thu, 2005-05-26 at 16:02 +0100, lesleyb wrote:
> 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.

It might mean 'logins', not 'users'. Does its count match the number of
lines when you do a 'w' ?

> I'm not happy with nobody being there

Why? It's a standard user for services like apache (or other things) on
some distros.

Cheers,

Alex.

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