Hi all,
Some time ago, I posted a question about mysterious users that showed up when I would do a "who" at the prompt. I have a question related to that issue. Is there any difference in typing "exit" to stop a terminal vs. clicking on the "X" in that terminal's window? I wonder if these extra users are due to my "X-ing" out of a terminal rather than typing "exit" at the prompt.
Is there any harm done by "X-ing" out of the terminal?
Is there a proper way to retrieve those users remaining from a prior X-out so that I could "exit" from them? (short of rebooting, I can't seem to remove the extraneous users.)
Clint
My mailbox filled up and I missed the reply to this, but was able to read it on marc.theaimsgroup.com's archive. I am confusing users with open terminal sessions -- I'm the only user on this home desktop system.
When I ran who after init 1 I get this response;
charshaw pts/4 Jul 26 17:59 (:0.0) charshaw pts/11 Jul 26 21:52 (:0.0) charshaw pts/12 Jul 26 21:53 (:0.0) charshaw pts/16 Jul 27 10:09 (:0.0)
when I exit init 1 and log back in, w provides me with this information:
10:11:48 up 21:47, 6 users, load average: 2.10, 0.96, 0.43
USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT
charshaw :0 - 10:11 ?xdm? 21.03s 0.62s /usr/bin/gnome-
charshaw pts/17 :0.0 10:11 0.00s 0.04s 0.00s w
are those pts/XX "users" terminal sessions that I "X"'d out of rather than typing "exit"? Is this just a non-issue that I should just get used to seeing?
Thanks, Clint
