Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2002 11:55:31 +0000 From: Mark Drayton <mark.drayton@izrsolutions.com> To: Lance Bland <lbland@vvi.com> Cc: adrian kok <adriankok2000@yahoo.com.hk>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: number of users Message-ID: <20020126115531.A10993@drex.staff.izr.com> In-Reply-To: <CF76FE80-11CA-11D6-A67C-0030659A531A@vvi.com>; from lbland@vvi.com on Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 02:36:21PM -0500 References: <20020125192444.A3916@drex.staff.izr.com> <CF76FE80-11CA-11D6-A67C-0030659A531A@vvi.com>
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Lance Bland (lbland@vvi.com) wrote: > > 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. Yes, you are right. What I should have said was these tools only deal with users that are logged in or have logged in at sometime. They won't count the number of user accounts on a system. -- Mark Drayton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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