Many thanks for the replies.
Sorry should have explained myself better.
The OS is fedora. When I log in via ssh and do "who -a" there are a number of pts's with say the highest being pts/76 which is where I am logged in.
i.e. "who -a" output (shortened)
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Jul 16 02:19 176 id=si term=0 exit=0
system boot Jul 16 02:19
run-level 3 Jul 16 02:19 last=S
Jul 16 02:20 1047 id=l3 term=0 exit=0
LOGIN tty1 Jul 16 02:20 1928 id=1
LOGIN tty2 Jul 16 02:20 1929 id=2
LOGIN tty3 Jul 16 02:20 1930 id=3
LOGIN tty4 Jul 16 02:20 1931 id=4
LOGIN tty5 Jul 16 02:20 1932 id=5
LOGIN tty6 Jul 16 02:20 1933 id=6
pts/0 Jul 16 03:07 2088 id=ts/0 term=0 exit=0
pts/1 Jul 16 02:32 2140 id=ts/1 term=0 exit=0
...
...
pts/73 Aug 6 18:28 10803 id=s/73 term=0 exit=0
pts/74 Aug 6 19:12 10883 id=s/74 term=0 exit=0
pts/75 Aug 6 22:46 11010 id=s/75 term=0 exit=0
pts/76 Aug 6 23:06 11038 id=s/76 term=0 exit=0
myuser + pts/77 Aug 7 10:46 . 11652 (xxmyresolvedaddressxx)
Now if I log out of ssh then log back in via ssh and do "who -a" again i would be on pts/78 but pts/77 would be shown in the "who -a" output but now having details like the others "id=s/77 term=0 exit=0". As you can see I logged on yesterday and today, but there are still pts's from july.
In /dev/pts there is only the one entry - which is my current pts. Which is adding to my confusion now
because I guess that means those other pts's dont really exist as there would be an entry in /dev/pts (am i correct? still learning
) so why does "who" still show them?
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