Annotation of src/usr.bin/who/who.1, Revision 1.7
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37: .Dd December 6, 1994
38: .Dt WHO 1
39: .Os
40: .Sh NAME
41: .Nm who
42: .Nd display who is logged in
43: .Sh SYNOPSIS
44: .Nm who
45: .Op Fl mTu
1.7 ! aaron 46: .Op Ar file
1.1 deraadt 47: .Nm who
48: .Ar am i
49: .Sh DESCRIPTION
1.7 ! aaron 50: The
! 51: .Nm
1.1 deraadt 52: utility displays a list of all users currently logged on, showing for
53: each user the login name, tty name, the date and time of login, and
54: hostname if not local.
55: .Pp
56: Available options:
57: .Bl -tag -width file
58: .It Fl m
59: Only print information about the current terminal. This is the
60: .Tn POSIX
61: way of saying
1.7 ! aaron 62: .Nm
1.1 deraadt 63: .Ar am i .
1.4 denny 64: .It Fl q
65: (Quick.) List only the names and the number of users currently
66: logged on. When this option is used, all other options are ignored.
1.1 deraadt 67: .It Fl T
68: Print a character after the user name indicating the state of the
69: terminal line:
1.7 ! aaron 70: .Sq +
1.1 deraadt 71: if the terminal is writable;
1.7 ! aaron 72: .Sq \-
1.1 deraadt 73: if it is not;
74: and
75: .Sq ?
76: if a bad line is encountered.
77: .It Fl u
78: Print the idle time for each user.
1.3 flipk 79: .It Fl H
80: Write column headings above the regular output.
1.1 deraadt 81: .It Ar \&am I
1.7 ! aaron 82: Returns the invoker's real user name.
1.1 deraadt 83: .It Ar file
84: By default,
1.7 ! aaron 85: .Nm
1.1 deraadt 86: gathers information from the file
87: .Pa /var/run/utmp .
88: An alternate
89: .Ar file
90: may be specified which is usually
91: .Pa /var/log/wtmp
92: (or
93: .Pa /var/log/wtmp.[0-6]
94: depending on site policy as
95: .Pa wtmp
96: can grow quite large and daily versions may or may not
97: be kept around after compression by
98: .Xr ac 8 ) .
99: The
100: .Pa wtmp
101: file contains a record of every login, logout,
102: crash, shutdown and date change
103: since
104: .Pa wtmp
105: was last truncated or
106: created.
107: .El
108: .Pp
109: If
110: .Pa /var/log/wtmp
111: is being used as the file, the user name may be empty
1.5 aaron 112: or one of the special characters `|', `}' and `~'. Logouts produce
1.1 deraadt 113: an output line without any user name. For more information on the
114: special characters, see
115: .Xr utmp 5 .
116: .Sh FILES
117: .Bl -tag -width /var/log/wtmp.[0-6] -compact
118: .It Pa /var/run/utmp
119: .It Pa /var/log/wtmp
120: .It Pa /var/log/wtmp.[0-6]
121: .El
122: .Sh SEE ALSO
123: .Xr last 1 ,
124: .Xr mesg 1 ,
125: .Xr users 1 ,
126: .Xr getuid 2 ,
127: .Xr utmp 5
128: .Sh HISTORY
129: A
130: .Nm
131: utility appeared in
132: .At v6 .
133: .Sh STANDARDS
134: The
135: .Nm
136: utility is expected to conform to
137: .St -p1003.2-92 .