Re: who sees to many users

[Gregory Woodbury <ggw wolves durham nc us>]

On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 09:22:02PM +0100, Andy Green wrote:
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> On Wednesday 07 April 2004 21:19, Rick Stevens wrote:
> > Gerrit wrote:
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> > > gerrit   pts/1        Apr  5 21:23
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> > > gerrit   pts/24       Apr  6 12:43
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> > It's not a discrepancy.  You probably have a bunch of xterms or
> > ssh/telnet sessions open.  Each one sucks up a /dev/pts and has a user
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> lsof -n | grep pts
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> might give some tips then...
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> - -Andy

There may be a bug in gdm.  It does not properly "logout" the sessions
when you select log out from the GNOME menu.  I haven't had time to
properly document the problem, but someone should put it in bugzilla.
I haven't tried the lsof command Andy listed yet.

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