[CLUE-Tech] who command, what is says

[Frank Whiteley]

Did you try w and top?

Frank Whiteley

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin Cullis" <kevincu at orci.com>
To: <clue-tech at clue.denver.co.us>
Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2002 9:48 PM
Subject: Re: [CLUE-Tech] who command, what is says


> David,
>
> The below "listing" was just an example, not the actual stuff.  The ???
> DOES have his name show up and there are different login times for each.
>
> Yes, I'm aware of the xterms logins because I've seen it on my machine
> at home, but the one at work shows root and his name causing me to
> question it.  My wife has a her own Linux login (can you believe my wife
> is getting geekier, woo hoo!) but I don't see her name during the who
> command.  That's why the question below.
>
> While I'm not too concerned, I'm just trying to understand what it
> means.  I've done a ps to see if he was running anything, but nothing
> showed up with his name and doing a ps command didn't show anything
> either.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Kevin
>
> David Anselmi wrote:
> >
> > Kevin Cullis wrote:
> > >
> > > kevin    :0       Jul 31 06:21 (console)
> > > ????     pts/0    Jul 31 06:21 (:0)
> > > root     pts/1    Jul 31 06:21 (:0)
> >
> > pts means pseudo-tty.  I usually see them for network connections.  I'm
> > not sure what the :0 means--running X, maybe?  In that case, perhaps you
> > have two other windows open that are showing up.  They both show the
> > same login time as you.
> >
> > I wouldn't be suspicious unless you see the other guy's name show up.
> > But even then it may be that he's logged in remotely or that some remote
> > connection he had died.  I used to work by opening xterm windows from a
> > server to my Win2k box.  Each window had a separate login (with an xterm
> > and a bash process, at least).  When the X server would die those
> > processes would still be around.  I assume that the TCP connection would
> > eventually time out and everything would get cleaned up, but I usually
> > killed the processes myself.
> >
> > Dave
> >
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