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>7.3. Monitoring Users</H1
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>Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they
AREN'T out to get you... Source Unknown</P
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>From time to time there are going to be occasions where you will
want to know exactly what people are doing on your system. Maybe you
notice that a lot of RAM is being used, or a lot of CPU activity.
You are going to want to see who is on the system, what they are
running, and what kind of resources they are using.</P
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>7.3.1. The who command</H2
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>The easiest way to see who is on the system is to do a
<B
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>who</B
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>w</B
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<B
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>who</B
> is a simple tool that lists out who is logged --&#62;
on the system and what port or terminal they are logged on at.
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> who</B
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>bjones pts/0 May 23 09:33
wally pts/3 May 20 11:35
aweeks pts/1 May 22 11:03
aweeks pts/2 May 23 15:04</TT
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>7.3.2. The ps command -again!</H2
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>In the previous section we can see that user aweeks is logged
onto both <TT
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>pts/1</TT
> and <TT
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>pts/2</TT
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but what if we want to see what they are doing? We could to a
<B
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>ps -u aweeks</B
> and get the following output
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20876 pts/1 00:00:00 bash
20904 pts/2 00:00:00 bash
20951 pts/2 00:00:00 ssh
21012 pts/1 00:00:00 ps</TT
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>
From this we can see that the user is doing a <B
CLASS="COMMAND"
>ps</B
>
<B
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>ssh</B
>.</P
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>This is a much more consolidated use of the
<B
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>ps</B
> than discussed previously.</P
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>7.3.3. The w command</H2
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>Even easier than using the <B
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>who</B
> and
<B
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>ps -u</B
> commands is to use the <B
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>w</B
>.
<B
CLASS="COMMAND"
>w</B
> will print out not only who is on the system,
but also the commands they are running.
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>aweeks :0 09:32 ?xdm? 30:09 0.02s -:0
aweeks pts/0 09:33 5:49m 0.00s 0.82s kdeinit: kded
aweeks pts/2 09:35 8.00s 0.55s 0.36s vi sag-0.9.sgml
aweeks pts/1 15:03 59.00s 0.03s 0.03s /bin/bash</TT
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>From this we can see that I have a <B
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>kde</B
> session
running, I'm working in this document :-), and have another terminal
open sitting idle at a bash prompt.</P
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>7.3.4. The skill command</H2
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> To Be Added</P
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>7.3.5. nice and renice</H2
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>To Be Added</P
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