[tkmd]

I am the only one who uses this computer and typed in the "uptime " command and it said -2 users- wha?

is this including the root and me? There are no other users on this computer.

[gorickey]

Originally posted by tkmd:
is this including the root and me?

Bingo.

[tkmd]

so the "root" is another entity. Thanks for the quick reply

[chabig]

It's not root and you. It you and you. When you run terminal, each terminal window is its own session and you are the logged in user. Run the "who" command to see who the users are. Here is my output:

Mighty-Mouse:~ chabig$ who
chabig console Aug 8 08:37
chabig ttyp1 Aug 9 07:35
Mighty-Mouse:~ chabig$ uptime
7:37 up 3 days, 54 mins, 2 users, load averages: 0.33 0.58 0.55
Mighty-Mouse:~ chabig$

Now open a few more terminal windows and run who again:

Mighty-Mouse:~ chabig$ who
chabig console Aug 8 08:37
chabig ttyp1 Aug 9 07:35
chabig ttyp2 Aug 9 07:37
chabig ttyp3 Aug 9 07:37
Mighty-Mouse:~ chabig$ uptime
7:37 up 3 days, 54 mins, 4 users, load averages: 0.27 0.59 0.55
Mighty-Mouse:~ chabig$

Chris

[gorickey]

Originally posted by chabig:
It's not root and you. It you and you. When you run terminal, each terminal window is its own session and you are the logged in user.

D'oh! I apologize tkmd...thanks to chabig, I've learned something myself today...

[proton]

You may want to use the w command instead of who. Besides being 2 characters shorter, it also gives more information:

Code:
 1:40  up  8:27, 9 users, load averages: 1.86 1.11 0.92
USER     TTY      FROM              LOGIN@  IDLE WHAT
andrew   console  -                Mon17    8:26 -
andrew   p1       -                Mon17       - ssh xxxxxxx
andrew   p3       example.com      Mon17       - -tcsh
andrew   p5       -                Mon23       - -tcsh
andrew   p7       -                 1:00       - ssh xxxxxxxx
andrew   p8       -                 1:01       - -tcsh
andrew   p9       -                 1:09       - less -Rse
andrew   pa       -                 1:17       - -tcsh
andrew   pb       -                 1:40       - w

- proton

[Spheric Harlot]

When using the Fast User Switching feature, why don't the other active users show up?

[chabig]

Originally posted by Spheric Harlot:
When using the Fast User Switching feature, why don't the other active users show up?

Because users logged into the GUI are invisible to you. It's the nature of a multi-user system. As far as you know, you're the only user of the machine. Only the OS keeps track of individual users. However, you DO see other user's terminal sessions.

Chris