silly question about the w command

sigint-ninja · 02-10-2016, 02:23 AM

if i go w i get

[user@localhost ~]$ w
08:19:37 up 23 min, 2 users, load average: 0.04, 0.14, 0.21
USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT
user :0 :0 07:57 ?xdm? 3:27 0.12s gdm-session-wor
user pts/0 :0.0 08:14 1.00s 0.04s 0.00s w

according to what i read w (what) shows more detailed info than who,its ment to show info about users

but why is my user account in twice? does it just show users and what processes they running?
gdm and the w command itself or am i missing something?

thanks

sag47 · 02-10-2016, 02:33 AM

man w explains it. Not a silly question. You should look up tutorials on how to read man pages. I find I rarely have to ask questions by reading man pages.

theminotaur · 02-10-2016, 03:53 AM

gdm grabs the tty you're using for w. The terminal is also used as a PID for w.

Could be wrong though. :,/

JJJCR · 02-10-2016, 04:04 AM

i suppose you're account is login on the machine.

then you use same account to login via TTY.

or it could be that:

1 user is a ninja user

the other user is just a virtual user.

So two users: 1 ninja and 1 virtual

sigint-ninja · 02-10-2016, 04:22 PM

tons of tanks guys!!!