[Gllug] Excess Users created

[Sharon Kimble]

I have the situation where my 'uptime' shows that I have five users on this 
machine, although I am the only user on a standalone. 'w' shows just two
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08:19:54 up 7 days, 12:08,  6 users,  load average: 2.34, 2.48, 2.42
USER     TTY      FROM              LOGIN@   IDLE   JCPU   PCPU WHAT
boztu    pts/67   -                07:31   48:23   0.00s  0.67s kdeinit: kded
boztu    pts/68   -                08:19    0.00s  0.04s  0.00s w
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It seems that everytime that I log off, and then log back on again, another 
'user episode' [probably not the correct term but I can't think what else to 
call them] is created but never closed. Restarting the x-server makes no 
difference at all.

How can I find out what these users are?
How can I close them without rebooting?

I did think that I'd asked this question before, but I've been back in the 
archives until April and can find no trace of me asking it.

Sharon.
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 08:18:23 up 7 days, 12:06,  5 users,  load average: 2.77, 2.60, 2.45
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