i am curious about something that i was never too sure about, and i am pretty confident someone will have the answer....now i am going to show my output from the command "who".

user tty1 Jun 13 21:55
user pts/5 Jun 17 22:48
user pts/6 Jun 17 22:39

7:36pm up 4 days, 22:08, 3 users, load average: 0.85, 1.06, 1.34

and there is my uptime...now my question is as you see i did log in almost 5 days ago and i understand that the first one in the list is my login on terminal 1 (TeleType) or whatever it means, and it was on June13...but what are the other two...
and you see, it was lastnight that they came, and i was wondering what they are there for, and what does "pts" stand for? i think i noticed another type it was like "vc" or something, i just remember seeing it on a mdk box, but anyways, to wrap it up
does anyone know why i have 3 users and what does the pts stand for?

pts = pseudo-terminal slave

twilli pts/0 Jun 18 16:18
twilli pts/1 Jun 19 00:35
twilli pts/2 Jun 19 00:26

This is what mine looks like in RH9.0. If you open another terminal, it will be added. I don't know why there are at least three of them though, or what they all stand for.

anyone else have any explanations?

I thought twilli227 explained it.

Each one pts/# is a pseudo terminal. Usually you have TTY 1 logged in - this would be where you logged in and started X from (even if it was started automatically). The others are terminals you opened in X (ie. xterm, aterm, etc.)

Try to run 'pstree'

maybe that will explain it better.