What is this?!?

[Glenn R. Stone]

In <37222 at super.ORG> law at super.super.org (Jeffrey A Law) writes:
>Can someone please tell me what the console is doing in the username
>field from the last command?!?

>law       pts/1        planet.super.org Wed Nov 14 12:06   still logged in
>console   hft/0                         Tue Nov 13 10:58   still logged in
>merk      hft/0                         Tue Nov 13 10:57 - 10:58  (00:01)
>console   hft/0                         Mon Nov 12 17:11 - 10:57  (17:45)

It means there wasn't anyone logged in on the console (and, in this case,
still isn't).  Now, *why* Big Blue did it this way, I don't know.  
It's awfully confusing to me.

-- Glenn

Glenn R. Stone
glenns at eas.gatech.edu