Re: Counting users

["Leif Svalgaard" <leif@xxxxxxxx>]

From: <Ron@cpumms.com>
> Each terminal should count separately. So the same person signed onto two
> different terminals would count twice.
>

under what circumstances should the person only be counted once?
by "person" you mean user-id? I have several (3) user-ids with different
authority, count as 1 or as 3 persons or users? how would one know
what a "person" is?




>
> From: <Ron@cpumms.com>
> > I have a requirement to count the number of users signed onto a
> particular
> > system. This is not really a problem in itself as the List Jobs API gives
> > me this. BUT, users who are signed on with multiple sessions to the same
> > terminal should only be counted once.
>
> Users that are signed on with single sessions to different terminals should
> be counted how? as one user or as several users? if as one user, then
> why can't you simply count different users no matter what  terminal(s) they
> are using?


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