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Date:      Fri, 25 Jan 2002 14:36:21 -0500
From:      Lance Bland <lbland@vvi.com>
To:        Mark Drayton <mark.drayton@izrsolutions.com>
Cc:        adrian kok <adriankok2000@yahoo.com.hk>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: number of users
Message-ID:  <CF76FE80-11CA-11D6-A67C-0030659A531A@vvi.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020125192444.A3916@drex.staff.izr.com>

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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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