[CLUE-Tech] who command, what is says

[David Anselmi]

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