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Old 08-10-2011
Not able to understand the output of w command
I have taken putty session of a server from two separate machines namely HOST1(3 sessions) and HOST2(1 Session) .
However w command says there are 5 users

Confused over the output any clue will be appreciated.

Code:
# w
 09:29:36 up 34 days, 15:48,  5 users,  load average: 0.62, 4.33, 8.16
USER     TTY      FROM              LOGIN@   IDLE   JCPU   PCPU WHAT
root     pts/17   HOST1    09:18    4:26   0.01s  0.01s -bash
root     pts/18   HOST1    09:27    1:21   0.00s  0.00s -bash
root     pts/21   HOST2    09:29    0.00s  0.00s  0.00s w
root     pts/20   HOST1    09:29    1:39   0.00s  0.00s -bash

# 2  
Old 08-10-2011
In my case I sometimes run 3 ssh connections to my server through putty. In this case the user seems to do the same, and for each connection you will see a login from the user in the w-list Smilie
# 3  
Old 08-10-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by spirm8
In my case I sometimes run 3 ssh connections to my server through putty. In this case the user seems to do the same, and for each connection you will see a login from the user in the w-list Smilie
If you read the question correctly i m getting 5 users as output of w command. Where as i had logged on 4 putty connections also on physical terminal no one is logged.

Why 1 extra user is shown in w ?
# 4  
Old 08-10-2011
Sigh. Your're right, I'm sorry.

I can't really give you a reason for why it is saying 5 users when you only have made 4 connections. Lets hope someone else can Smilie
 
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