On Tue, 2004-07-27 at 10:17 -0400, Clint Harshaw wrote: > Clint Harshaw wrote: > > 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? I suspect what is happening is that you are causing X to get killed unceremoniously, so it doesn't have a chance to update /var/run/utmp, which is what the 'who' command uses to get its information. You probably don't need to get used to seeing it, if you log out of X properly before switching init level.
