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28.Dd August 30, 2020
29.Dt WHO 1
30.Os
31.Sh NAME
32.Nm who
33.Nd display who is on the system
34.Sh SYNOPSIS
35.Nm
36.Op Fl abHmqsTu
37.Op Cm am I
38.Op Ar file
39.Sh DESCRIPTION
40The
41.Nm
42utility displays information about currently logged in users.
43By default, this includes the login name, tty name, date and time of login and
44remote hostname if not local.
45.Pp
46The options are as follows:
47.Bl -tag -width indent
48.It Fl a
49Equivalent to
50.Fl bTu ,
51with the exception that output is not restricted to the time and date of
52the last system reboot.
53.It Fl b
54Write the time and date of the last system reboot.
55.It Fl H
56Write column headings above the output.
57.It Fl m
58Show information about the terminal attached to standard input only.
59.It Fl q
60.Dq "Quick mode" :
61List the names and number of logged in users in columns.
62All other command line options are ignored.
63.It Fl s
64Show the name, line and time fields only.
65This is the default.
66.It Fl T
67Indicate whether each user is accepting messages.
68One of the following characters is written:
69.Pp
70.Bl -tag -width 1n -compact
71.It Li +
72User is accepting messages.
73.It Li \&-
74User is not accepting messages.
75.It Li \&?
76An error occurred.
77.El
78.It Fl u
79Show idle time for each user in hours and minutes as
80.Ar hh : Ns Ar mm ,
81.Ql \&.
82if the user has been idle less than a minute, and
83.Dq Li old
84if the user has been idle more than 24 hours.
85.It Cm am I
86Equivalent to
87.Fl m .
88.El
89.Pp
90By default,
91.Nm
92gathers information from the file
93.Pa /var/run/utx.active .
94An alternate
95.Ar file
96may be specified which is usually
97.Pa /var/log/utx.log
98(or
99.Pa /var/log/utx.log.[0-6]
100depending on site policy as
101.Pa utx.log
102can grow quite large and daily versions may or may not
103be kept around after compression by
104.Xr ac 8 ) .
105The
106.Pa utx.log
107file contains a record of every login, logout,
108crash, shutdown and date change
109since
110.Pa utx.log
111was last truncated or
112created.
113.Pp
114If
115.Pa /var/log/utx.log
116is being used as the file, the user name may be empty
117or one of the special characters '|', '}' and '~'.
118Logouts produce
119an output line without any user name.
120For more information on the
121special characters, see
122.Xr getutxent 3 .
123.Sh ENVIRONMENT
124The
125.Ev COLUMNS , LANG , LC_ALL
126and
127.Ev LC_TIME
128environment variables affect the execution of
129.Nm
130as described in
131.Xr environ 7 .
132.Sh FILES
133.Bl -tag -width /var/log/utx.log.[0-6] -compact
134.It Pa /var/run/utx.active
135.It Pa /var/log/utx.log
136.It Pa /var/log/utx.log.[0-6]
137.El
138.Sh EXIT STATUS
139.Ex -std
140.Sh EXAMPLES
141Show a brief summary of who is logged in:
142.Bd -literal -offset indent
143$ who -q
144fernape          root             root
145# users = 3
146.Ed
147.Pp
148Show who is logged in along with the line and time fields (without the headers):
149.Bd -literal -offset indent
150$ who -s
151fernape          ttyv0        Aug 26 16:23
152root             ttyv1        Aug 26 16:23
153root             ttyv2        Aug 26 16:23
154.Ed
155.Pp
156Show information about the terminal attached to standard input:
157.Bd -literal -offset indent
158$ who am i
159fernape                       Aug 26 16:24
160.Ed
161.Pp
162Show time and date of the last system reboot, whether the users accept messages
163and the idle time for each of them:
164.Bd -literal -offset indent
165$ who -a
166                 - system boot  Aug 26 16:23   .
167fernape          - ttyv0        Aug 26 16:23   .
168root             - ttyv1        Aug 26 16:23   .
169root             - ttyv2        Aug 26 16:23   .
170.Ed
171.Pp
172Same as above but showing headers:
173.Bd -literal -offset indent
174$ who -aH
175NAME             S LINE         TIME         IDLE  FROM
176                 - system boot  Aug 26 16:23   .
177fernape          - ttyv0        Aug 26 16:23   .
178root             - ttyv1        Aug 26 16:23 00:01
179root             - ttyv2        Aug 26 16:23 00:01
180.Ed
181.Sh SEE ALSO
182.Xr last 1 ,
183.Xr users 1 ,
184.Xr w 1 ,
185.Xr getutxent 3
186.Sh STANDARDS
187The
188.Nm
189utility conforms to
190.St -p1003.1-2001 .
191.Sh HISTORY
192A
193.Nm
194command appeared in
195.At v1 .
196