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On Friday, January 25, 2002, at 02:24 PM, Mark Drayton wrote:

> Original poster: these methods will show how many users are currently
> logged in.

no,

last and ac -p work from the file:
file /var/log/wtmp
which accumulates all the login times, past and present.
and is for "System Accounting"
The user does not have to be logged in to have an entry.

-lance
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