[CLUE-Tech] who command, what is says

[Kevin Cullis]

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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