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  • Subject: Re: Counting users
  • From: "Leif Svalgaard" <leif@xxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 17:34:34 -0500

From: <Ron@cpumms.com>
> Sorry, I wasn't very clear.....
> 
> What they want to do is count each terminal in use. So if a user signs on
> to a single terminal and starts 5 sessions (or whatever) he only counts
> once. But if the user signs onto 5 different terminals, he gets counted 5
> times. Yes, by person i mean user id.  This is only really a problem with
> "dumb" terminals.

so, if another user signs on to the same five terminals while the
first user has not yet signed off, should the total count now be 5 or 10? 
If you just want to count terminals the count should be 5, so "users" are 
just a red herring or what?.



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