-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 It's possible that your /var/run/utmp might have gotten corrupted for some reason. If you're really sure there are no other users on your system, you could do: rm /var/run/utmp touch /var/run/utmp chgrp utmp /var/run/utmp chmod 664 /var/run/utmp Greg On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 10:01:24AM -0700, Zachary Kline wrote: > Hi All, > I'm curious as to why uptime and w both seem to think there are more > users on my system than actually are logged in. The actual time > callculation seems accurate. > I'm running archlinux with Speakup. As far as I'm concerned everything > else on this system works as expected. I'm just wondering about this > tiny inconsistency. > I've read up on utmp and wtmp, but don't know what programs besides the > login program might have cause to mess with them. > Any info would be appreciated. > Best and thanks, > Zack. > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > - -- web site: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org gpg public key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc skype: gregn1 (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) - -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkpraV4ACgkQ7s9z/XlyUyCgCwCePm7EI4TOfJbDt+R7serqRF/4 P/8AoJZJaoe3pGkXEabJJucxth2pVwxJ =rHZq -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
