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31.Dd Oct 28, 2011
32.Dt WHO 1
33.Os
34.Sh NAME
35.Nm who
36.Nd display who is on the system
37.Sh SYNOPSIS
38.Nm
39.Op Fl bHmqsTu
40.Op Cm am I
41.Op Ar file
42.Sh DESCRIPTION
43The
44.Nm
45utility displays information about currently logged in users.
46By default, this includes the login name, tty name, date and time of login and
47remote hostname if not local.
48.Pp
49The options are as follows:
50.Bl -tag -width indent
51.It Fl b
52Write the time and date of the last system reboot.
53.It Fl H
54Write column headings above the output.
55.It Fl m
56Show information about the terminal attached to standard input only.
57.It Fl q
58.Dq "Quick mode" :
59List the names and number of logged in users in columns.
60All other command line options are ignored.
61.It Fl s
62Show the name, line and time fields only.
63This is the default.
64.It Fl T
65Indicate whether each user is accepting messages.
66One of the following characters is written:
67.Pp
68.Bl -tag -width 1n -compact
69.It Li +
70User is accepting messages.
71.It Li \&-
72User is not accepting messages.
73.It Li \&?
74An error occurred.
75.El
76.It Fl u
77Show idle time for each user in hours and minutes as
78.Ar hh Ns : Ns Ar mm ,
79.Ql \&.
80if the user has been idle less that a minute, and
81.Dq Li old
82if the user has been idle more than 24 hours.
83.It Cm am I
84Equivalent to
85.Fl m .
86.El
87.Pp
88By default,
89.Nm
90gathers information from the file
91.Pa /var/run/utx.active .
92An alternate
93.Ar file
94may be specified which is usually
95.Pa /var/log/utx.log
96(or
97.Pa /var/log/utx.log.[0-6]
98depending on site policy as
99.Pa utx.log
100can grow quite large and daily versions may or may not
101be kept around after compression by
102.Xr ac 8 ) .
103The
104.Pa utx.log
105file contains a record of every login, logout,
106crash, shutdown and date change
107since
108.Pa utx.log
109was last truncated or
110created.
111.Pp
112If
113.Pa /var/log/utx.log
114is being used as the file, the user name may be empty
115or one of the special characters '|', '}' and '~'.
116Logouts produce
117an output line without any user name.
118For more information on the
119special characters, see
120.Xr getutxent 3 .
121.Sh ENVIRONMENT
122The
123.Ev COLUMNS , LANG , LC_ALL
124and
125.Ev LC_TIME
126environment variables affect the execution of
127.Nm
128as described in
129.Xr environ 7 .
130.Sh FILES
131.Bl -tag -width /var/log/utx.log.[0-6] -compact
132.It Pa /var/run/utx.active
133.It Pa /var/log/utx.log
134.It Pa /var/log/utx.log.[0-6]
135.El
136.Sh EXIT STATUS
137.Ex -std
138.Sh SEE ALSO
139.Xr last 1 ,
140.Xr users 1 ,
141.Xr w 1 ,
142.Xr getutxent 3
143.Sh STANDARDS
144The
145.Nm
146utility conforms to
147.St -p1003.1-2001 .
148.Sh HISTORY
149A
150.Nm
151command appeared in
152.At v1 .
153