3 users

**wavz** · 10-11-2004

I came back to my computer last night after the last football game and went into Console and typed (Uptime). When I got the results it says (11:05am up 16:07, 3 users, load average: 1.15, 1.24, 0.6

. Now the whole 3 users thing is bothering me. Anyone have any suggestions??
Wavz

**techieMoe** · 10-11-2004

Well, if I'm not mistaken, root counts as one and so does your regular user... but the third?? beats me...

**wavz** · 10-11-2004

Thing is even when I started up the computer this morning, first thing I did was check the uptime command again and bingo 3 users was there again. Is there any command or way to see the users logged into the machine?

**techieMoe** · 10-11-2004

users I think will do the trick.
who might as well.

**wavz** · 10-11-2004

ok with the users command I get

xxx xxx xxx

with the who command I get

xxx :0 Oct 11 10:58 (console)
xxx pts/0 Oct 11 10:59
xxx pts/1 Oct 11 11:33

xxx stands for my user name and they were all the same.
Wavz

**techieMoe** · 10-11-2004

So your username is registering as logged in 3 times... I'm lost. I've never run into this before.

**wavz** · 10-11-2004

I got this reply from another forum

"when applications run, you log into X etc... you will become another user. nothing to worry about. they're probably all you. or one is root and the rest are you."

Wavz

**techieMoe** · 10-11-2004

Ah. Well, I was thinking something like that in the back of my head. That's good to hear.

**big_k105** · 10-11-2004

my server is always at 3 or more users and they are all me as i ssh in from different locations and it stays connected

and right now im my laptop it says i have 8 users and they are all me

so yeah its nothing to worry about

**wavz** · 10-11-2004

Thanks big K & techieMoe just freaked me out to see 3 users, thought I got hacked or something.

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