Uptime

[Electrofunkdaddy]

Hey I am trying to write a php script that uses the uptime command in terminal. this works but

running up shows 19:48 51 mins, 4 users???? load averages 0.45 0.38 0.27 etc

I am confused by the 4 users, how do I find out what and who they are, it is only me that uses my mac and I have finished writing the website for it.


Thanks

EFD

[Smithcraft]

Sometimes deamon like processes show as users. If you restart, does it still show 4 users right away?

I'm sure there should be a way to list the users, but I can't think of it right now.

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[philiparcario]

you are welcome smithcraft.



to the op go to finder type in users take a look see at the user folder. sometimes they get duplicated. you may have 2 or 3 user folders.
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[Cypher]

Have a look in Activity Monitor, and select ALL PROCESSES in the drop down list, then see how many different users show up in the USER column. I have more than the 2 real users. In fact quite a lot more LOL Maybe some of these background ones account for the 4 your seeing.

I have 10 different ones showing including my real users and
root
_spotlight
_netbios
_networkd
_eppc
_mdnsrespoder
_coreaudiod
_usbmuxd
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[Brendan]

You will have a user for each GUI session logon and a user for each terminal session you open. Open another terminal session and the count will go up. The who command will tell you who is logged in and where.

[macmanmacman]

also make sure the other users are not networked users mac os x likes to pick up other machines on your network it doesn't mean they are users or you can access them it just means this is what it detected i got confused by the 4 user statment i found it was communicating with my moms macbook air my computer my iMac and my moms iPhone and listing all these devices as users which of course they are not look under the shared devices tab all you have to do is open your hard drive folder on your desktop and look to the left if it says shared devices or shared and you see devices listed there are your users