[K12OSN] are there still miscounts using who/finger/w?

Sudev Barar sbarar at gmail.com
Fri Aug 12 15:21:49 UTC 2005


On 8/12/05, Henry Burroughs <hburroughs at hhprep.org> wrote:
>  On my 4.2 (FC2) server, I've noticed how my who/w/finger show incorrect
> data (ghost users, and wrong number of users on the server at the time).  I
> remember a discussion on the list a little while ago (I couldn't find it in
> the archives) about this same topic.  Is this issue fixed under 4.2.1EL or
> 4.4? It would be nice to get accurate user counts during the days.

Can not say if this is corrected or not but this will give you proper count:
last | grep still | sort | uniq

HTH
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Sudev Barar
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