Why there are two users showing in uptime command results?
When I ran the uptime on my MacBookPro machine I got the following result:
Last login: Thu Jun 3 14:43:40 on ttys000
Osama-Gamal-MBP-2:~ iOsama$ uptime
14:49 up 7 days, 20:10, 2 users, load averages: 0.29 0.24 0.24Why it lists that there are two users? is it normal? and who is the other user, is it the root user or what?
PS: I'm using Mac OS X 10.6.3 Edit: w command output:
Osama-Gamal-MBP-2:~ iOsama$ w 0:41 up 8 days, 6:03, 2 users, load averages: 1.92 1.81 1.38
USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE WHAT
iOsama console - 26May10 8days -
iOsama s000 - 0:13 - wwho command output:
Osama-Gamal-MBP-2:~ iOsama$ who
iOsama console May 26 18:40
iOsama ttys000 Jun 4 00:13 3 Answers
Try the w command. On my system I have the following:
# w 02:16:53 up 6:48, 2 users, load average: 0.50, 0.42, 0.52
USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT
pcm tty7 :0 19:28 6:48m 16:07 0.17s gnome-session
pcm pts/0 :0.0 01:51 0.00s 0.36s 0.76s gnome-terminal
# uptime 02:16:56 up 6:48, 2 users, load average: 0.50, 0.42, 0.52tty7 is your desktop login, pts/0 is a pseudo terminal ... probably what was used to type uptime in.
Why it lists that there are two users?
Because it shows every logged in session. A single user can have multiple active sessions at any one time.
is it normal?
100% normal ... A-OK
and who is the other user, is it the root user or what?
The other user is yourself. You have multiple sessions running. You can see in your output from your question, that the user name is the same for both sessions.
6I have just figured it out! I don't know whether it'll work for you or not. But I did the following steps:
- Pressed ctrl+alt+f1 and got terminal emulator on my linux mint 20.1 (Cinnamon)
- Typed exit and hit enter
- Opened Terminal; typed uptime and hit enter Now, it was showing me 1 user instead of 2. Hope it helps.
Each Terminal window or tab adds an additional user to what uptime reports. So, I'm guessing that one of those users is for your current Terminal session, and the other is for your macOS.
