Where am I? :)

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On 2006-03-04 00:44, K?vesd?n G?bor <gabor.kovesdan at t-hosting.hu> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> look at this:
>
> root at server# w
> 12:41AM  up 82 days, 10:05, 0 users, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
> USER             TTY      FROM              LOGIN@  IDLE WHAT
> root at server#
>
> Where am I? :) I don't know exactly how it happened, but I'll
> investigate, I have an idea and I'll report if I find out.

Some programs may tweak wtmp to `hide' users that are actively logged
in.  One program that I know can do this is screen(1).  Hitting ``^A L''
here, between successive `w' invocations, I can see this:

root at flame:/root# w
 2:04AM  up  2:10, 1 user, load averages: 0.07, 0.16, 0.19
USER             TTY      FROM              LOGIN@  IDLE WHAT
root at flame:/root# w
 2:05AM  up  2:11, 2 users, load averages: 0.03, 0.14, 0.17
USER             TTY      FROM              LOGIN@  IDLE WHAT
root             pts/0    :0:S.0            2:05AM     - w
root at flame:/root#