w and who dont match

Jeetendra Mirchandani <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.core-utils.bugs,gmane.linux.procps.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I have a FC1 system up since 45 days

the 'w' command says 33 users logged in, but shows only 8
where as who shows all 33 users

all of these 33 users are not actually logged in....


finger user-X
shows that user-X is logged in 3 times, which is wrong
he is logged in only once...

what is the problem? (I dont want to reboot!)


PS: I am not a member of the list, so please CC the reply to me

Regards,
Jeetu

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