Why is there a user? Nobody is logged in.

[Chase]

I've got a weird problem, and I can't figure out what it is, or what's causing it.

Constantly, there is always an extra "me" on my machine, when I'm logged in, it shows:


chase@krypton:~$ who
chase pts/0 Nov 11 00:21
chase pts/1 Nov 5 21:53
chase@krypton:~$ w
12:21am up 32 days, 2:37, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT
chase pts/0 63.229.200.125 12:21am 0.00s 0.16s 0.06s w
chase@krypton:~$


But then I can logout, and there will still be one left of me... what's going on? Am I making any sense?

[Dark Ninja]

I'm not sure what you mean. You're logged in. Just not...across a network. If you are logged in on your terminal, you are still logged in. This is the case here.


Dark Ninja

[The Whizzard]

[whizzard@gw ~/]# who
whizzard tty2 Nov 5 14:51
whizzard pts/1 Nov 11 01:26
[whizzard@gw ~/]# w
1:27am up 5 days, 10:40, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT
whizzard tty2 - Mon 2pm 5days 0.13s 0.09s bash
whizzard pts/1 pc-00100.thewhiz 1:26am 0.00s 0.18s 0.06s w
[whizzard@gw ~/]#

Interesting. Says I'm loged on to tty2. Nope, it has no keyboard/monitor. How can I be loged on to tty2? pts/1, yes. I do everything from a diferent conputer.

[ 11 November 2001: Message edited by: The Whizzard ]

[Chase]

No, I am not logged in ANYWHERE. Not at the keyboard, not in a vty, nowhere. The who response is a server-parsed command from my website. And when I am only logged in ONCE, it shows two users.

[berb]

if you are doing this in an xterm, it starts up another loggin session, check from the command line without x running

[Chase]

it is from the CLI....

[tamur]

It's KDE. It somehow leaves these open processes. It doesn't happen when I use Gnome. I've done some searching but have not found a solution.

[error27]

what processes is the other you running?

[Chase]

Uh, no, X isn't even installed.
All I have running is SSH, apache, qmail (with pop3)... and I can't think of anything else.