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[ILUG] Somewhat silly question...

[ILUG] Somewhat silly question...

Colm MacCarthaigh colm at stdlib.net
Tue Mar 15 15:09:18 GMT 2005


On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 02:08:51PM -0000, Braun Brelin wrote:
> This is a somewhat silly question, but, if I'm given a "w" output like:
> 
> mike     pts/5    172.16.38.95      8:13am 29:54   0.18s  0.06s  runcbl
> users30
> mike     pts/6    172.16.38.95      8:20am  5:28m  0.19s  0.07s  runcbl
> users30
> mike     pts/0    172.16.38.95      8:11am  5:54m  0.21s  0.07s  runcbl
> users30
> mike     pts/7    172.16.38.101    Fri 5pm  1:29m  0.22s  0.02s  bash
> 
> If I have an idle time of 5:28m, I assume that means an idle time of five
> minutes and 28 seconds, not an idle time of five hours and 28 minutes?

No it means hours and minutes. An easy way to confirm this is to
run it a few times a few seconds apart and see if the number of seconds
increments as you would expect.

-- 
Colm MacCárthaigh                        Public Key: colm+pgp at stdlib.net



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